Wrong. This is only true for force closures and the delay depends on the channel policy. 

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When a channel is closed, the funds are swept to an on-chain address. Typically, it takes 144 blocks (about 24 hours) before the funds from the closed channel appear in a user's local wall

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How's it possible that it opened with 14 BTC and closed with 14.06?

What do you mean? A channel that big could have easily done tens of thousands of big transactions in its lifetime, even if all the transactions went in the same direction.

No... there's no cause for re-balancing, that's what channel fees (particularly the new new negative fees) are for

The (technical?) founder of OpenNode went elsewhere not to long ago and the French retreated from the US, its also [REDACTED] to have that size in a hot wallet... there are much more likely explanations


Wild concept. Kind of flips the scalability argument for lightning on it's head. 

Holy crap. A 14 bitcoin channel with $0.95 closing fee.

Given how unbalanced it was, maybe reopening another one was cheaper than rebalancing.