Context
Have been using the Blockstream green Android app for sometime as my daily driver to pay with Lightning. It has been reasonably reliable. But about a week back, they said the lightning channel closed and I have to move my lightning balance to on-chain. I managed to recover the fund with an on-chain transaction.
Also, it seems the Lightning tab disappeared from my wallet, so I thought Blockstream stopped lightning support on the phone app.
Yesterday
The Android app got updated to version 5.1.4, and the lightning is back. My lightning tab shows a residue of 546 sats that I cannot move because the app is showing error
Input could not afford fees.
On top of that, the app has a banner saying something like it offers a seamless swap between lightning sat and L-BTC, and a guide that points to this page.
Funny enough, I cannot receive anything to add to the 546 Sats on my lightning tab, because I cannot create an invoice worth even 1 sat. The app complains
The amount is above my inbound liquidity
So seems like that 546 Sats and my lightning wallet are in a limbo, that you can neither add, nor take out from.
Questions
- Any way to reuse the lightning on Blockstream, together with my 546 Sats sitting there?
- Going forward, should I use Liquid sats (I don't have any yet, but can swap) to pay lightning invoices? Does it seem like Blockstream (the company) is putting its weight behind L-BTC? But is it safe?
If anyone who has experience with the Blockstream app can advice, it will be great.
crapp