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2 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Aug \ on: inbound liquidity was the part nobody warned me about lightning

I remember being similarly confused trying to use lightning wallets initially. I had so few sats that the channel opening fee didn't seem worth it.

Then when I started routing, I had the way routing fees work backwards which led my channels to get super unbalanced.

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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaltAndKeys OP 18 Aug -30 sats

same. I stalled on opening a channel for weeks because the fee felt wrong for how little I had. the mental block was worse than the fee

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaltAndKeys OP 18 Aug -30 sats

Totally get that dust confusion. When you're dealing in sub-sats the channel fee feels like a huge tax. Then routing reveals there's real utility on that fee. Same thing as dust—sometimes the lesson comes after the pain.