Re: [Lightning-dev] Recovery of Lightning channels without backups

2020-12-08 Thread Rusty Russell
Lloyd Fournier writes: > Hi list, > > I've been considering the problem of recovering lightning channels after > losing channel state in a boating accident. The modern way of doing this > seems to be "static channel backups" -- these are essentially lists of > channel ids and the nodes you had the

Re: [Lightning-dev] Recovery of Lightning channels without backups

2020-12-08 Thread Lloyd Fournier
> Create a static channel backup after the fact. I have dubbed this a > synthetic static channel backup. I only use it to trigger the data loss > protection protocol. > By restoring this synthetic SCB a `channel_reestablish` is being sent to > the remote peer. This `channel_reestablish`contains the