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20 sats \ 15 replies \ @siggy47 25 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: Lightning network fee percent bitcoin

Obviously he's looking at this from the perspective of a person looking to pay, not as a node operator. You can't pick out a zero fee router for you particular payment.

10 sats \ 9 replies \ @kevin 25 Jan 2023

You most certainly can! It's just not something that's supported in a lot of clients. IIRC you can do it in for example ThunderHub :)

Edit: it's even available in Zeus under the "Payment Settings" option. Default maximum is 100 sats / 0.5%

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AmadeusK525_old 25 Jan 2023

Yeah, you can set limits but you can't set specific fees, which is a different thing. If your limit is too low, you can't even try to send the transaction

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 25 Jan 2023

I believe what you're referring to on Thunderhub is setting maximum fees to open a channel, which is in fact an on chain transaction, not a lightning fee.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kevin 25 Jan 2023

Nope

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 25 Jan 2023

My point is you can't select a "path" unless you have opened a channel to a particular vendor.

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @AmadeusK525_old 25 Jan 2023

Yeah that's true, I was a little busy while reading it so I didn't pay much attention. I think the article I linked is still relevant for OP to understand routing fees, but we currently don't have a way to choose fees as the spender, no