3 sats \ 10 replies \ @falsefaucet 4 Nov 2022 \ on: Why are Lightning Node & Channel Numbers Down? bitcoin
LND BUG borked all LND nodes.
what does borked mean?
are you saying that node operators who haven’t upgraded to the latest lnd are not discoverable by the network? are their nodes entirely offline?
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borked as in just fucked it all up.
the bug prevents the node from syncing the blockchain.
therefore the nodes appear offline
Extremely water downed explanation
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can these nodes that appear offline still route payments?
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no the nodes appear offline, which means the channels associated with those nodes are unavailable and do not appear for routing LN payments.
and i do think zero fee routing closing down their node most likely had a material impact on those numbers, but i do believe the majority is from the bug. considering LND is the more popular LN implementation since its packages with node implementations like umbrel mynode etc.
personally i have two nodes, planning on getting Core LN running on my second one.
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got it, so even if a payment was being routed through only the nodes which appear offline, the payment would still fail?
is it possible to see whether the # of nodes running CLN has changed in the last couple weeks?
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are you asking if my node, your node and jims node were all offline and we have channels, if we could route a tx through our offline nodes?
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If that is the question the answer is no.
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i’m asking if those nodes appeared offline, could they still route payments?
or said differently, what is the difference between a node that appears offline vs. one that actually is offline?
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cant route payments of node is offline.
afaik