0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TonyGiorgio 31 Dec 2023 \ on: Dissection of a force-close that already cost me 140k sats lightning
If lnd knows that a peer is offline, it would not add a new HTLC, and instead fail the payment back to the sender. Sadly, that's not what lnd currently does.
Wow, that's pretty sad TBH. How many network wide force closes have happened due to this common source of negligence?
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490 sats \ 0 replies \ @C_Otto OP 31 Dec 2023
I had a closer look at my logs and it seems that, in this case, my peer wasn't offline at the time of adding the HTLC (otherwise the HTLC would not appear in the TX published by my node). If you have a closer look at the linked GitHub issue, it seems several improvements have been made already. It's not 100% fixed, but I wouldn't say lots of FCs nowadays happen because of this.
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