PSA: If you ever had channels with LNBIG in the early days (2018-2021), read this!
If you think you still have sats in such channels that you couldn't recover (e.g. your node broke down, no channel backup), there now might be a way.
You only require your seed.
Try running `chantools sweepremoteclosed` on the latest version (v0.13.6): https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools/releases/tag/v0.13.6
There are over 2.5k channels and over 10 BTC unspent! Big thanks to LNBIG for providing the data necessary and MrDonty for the idea/initiative.
Please RT for visibility!
More info on how to run the command:
https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools/blob/master/doc/chantools_sweepremoteclosed.md
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2025-02-10 09:53:46
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