Bitcoin Lightning Network transaction speed depends on the number of nodes that take part in the payment routing. LND might prefer to take a cheaper route over a shorter one. If you open a channel directly to Starblock then your payment will be confirmed instantly without any fees. Wallet balance is not the same as channel balance. You have to use the following command to check the state of your channels.

It took about 20 seconds per transaction on Starblocks but was near instant when I bought an article off Yalls.org. It's possible I'm not connected directly with the Starblocks channel, will have to double check when I get home.

Very happy that I finally have the testnet up and running, thank you again for all the help! Going to move onto mainnet tonight so I can buy this Blockstream sticker. Then it will all have been worth it

https://store.blockstream.com/product/lightning-sticker/

From their site:


So first make sure you are connected to at least one of these nodes.

Afterwards you can use the serach bar at the upper right to find your node either using your public key or IP address.

You have to edit the configuration file using nano and restart your node to apply changes. "Alias" setting should be somewhere in the middle of the file and as far as I remember, it should not exceed 32 characters.


ACINQ explorer is a bit outdated so I wouldn't be surprised if it was their fault. 1ML.com is often used by us, especially on the mainnet. If I were you, I would ignore that issue. Please note that 1ML.com might not update your node information instantly. On the left side of the page there should be "Last updated".

You wallet might have been created in the testnet directory. Try copying wallet.db using the following command

It seems to be a small permission problem. These two commands should fix it.


The documentation seems to be a bit outdated.

Oh. I forgot that I asked you to create mainnet folder using sudo. User bitcoin probably did not have permission to create wallet.db file. The testnet one is obviously incompatible.


Now you can try creating a new wallet again.

It still looks like a permission problem to me. Let's try two different things and see which one will work.


Check if this has fixed your problem. LND restart might (but should not) be needed. If it doesn't work, try deleting admin.macaroon (it will probably result in another error which you faced earlier).


EDIT: The second solution (deleting admin.macaroon) might work since you have switched from the testnet to the mainnet. LND should generate a new permission file compatible with the mainnet. Also, we assigned the "-hR" parameter to the chown earlier so it should have affected admin.macaroon as well.

Hi there, not sure if this is the right thread but I dont know where else to put it rn.
I followed this instruction and got it somehow running on testnet.

Now I funded my LN Wallet with 0.001 BTC


Checked immediately after it looked like this (Which made sense to me):


Now the sourcery when tx where confirmed (which doesnt make any sense to me):


It’s getting even weirder:
When I check the transaction on Blockexplorer it tells me that my channel is funded with 0.0006 60000 sat
It sums up to the total amount minus 177sat fee (even though it was announced with 166). But I totally do not get it. 

Can someone provide help? Thanks a lot!

thanks for lightning fast reply!
since i am not even sure what a transaction-id is but here is the link
https://testnet.smartbit.com.au/tx/ee1755b974cbc8dfb8b673336973f0b0306cb34f6a10d49a82a1abc6076b59ae


I was thinking that there was some kind of autopilot thingy but maybe only for opening/searching channels?
sorry. completely new to all of this magic.

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