How would private channel estimate capacity work? With what data could it be estimated?

zuspotirko

Private channels aren’t announced. *However* for the time being, their channel ids are deterministically derived from the funding tx. Theoretically, you could scan the blockchain looking for funding tx and probe for private channels.

k00b

I'm not quite sure how to pull this data - from everything I understand, private channels  and their details aren't announced to the network by design.  I'm curious if you have any more context on how this data could be helpful?

andyleroy

bitcoin

New Lightning Explorer… and asking for any feature requests that would be helpful

It would be cool with a private channel estimate capacity and if it was possible to see how many of those nodes were mobile nodes and how many channels was hosted channels