Two days ago I closed a channel of my lnd node using the lightning terminal. They have a very odd fee estimator with a slider that doesn’t show the fee right away so I ended up closing a channel with a fee of 2 sats/vb. Obviously it would have take days to close so I tried to bump the fee while closing this channel using thunderhub, but my Bitcoin Knots had RBF disabled by default. So, I ended up spending $60 on the Mempool accelerator to speed things up. It worked, but it was a bit nerve-wracking. After the channel closing transaction was accelerated and mined, however I couldn’t see any funds in the onchain wallet and the “change” part of the transaction didn’t even confirm right away. It looked like it had somehow taken my RBF command from thunderhub, which was odd. I had to wait for additional confirmations to finally see the funds appear in my on-chain wallet.

I’m working on some guides for the website and still experimenting with the Lightning Network, so I probably need to be more cautious, otherwise I’m going to burn through a lot of money figuring this lol