Translations:Opening channels/19/en
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- Make a payment to someone, buy something from a merchant, make a donation to a charity or project which accepts lightning payment. All of these will move sats from your local to remote and you will naturally get a balanced channel.
- Make sure you have a node alias (visible on graph - check amboss), have public channels open and have 2-4M capacity, Add BCash_Is_Trash
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as a peer (do not open channel). They might open channel to you. - Lightning Network Plus - to create swaps with other node runners. You open a channel to someone and someone else opens a channel to you. You can make a triangle, square, pentagon.
- Get a balanced channel from ln2me - you open a channel to them and move sats to them (this is an element of trust). After the channel is opened, they pay you back on-chain. It is an implementation of GSS (see blow)
- Buying from LNBIG with Umbrel - you pay for the inbound liquidity. This can be expensive but is usually a popular route.
- Ring of Fire - Another swap service similar to LN+
- Lightning Conductor - They open channel back to you if you open 500K channel to them.
- Umbrel Opening Channel Requests
- You can make a payment to your own custodial wallet like WoS, Strike, Munn, Breeze or other swap sites you trust and then you can withdraw BTC on-chain from these wallets. The cost varies a lot and you need to do your research.
- LOOP out. This is a trustless service to send payment on lightning and receiving on-chain. It can cost a lot and you may have to make a lot of attempts before you get a route.
- You can ask on plebnet for plebs to open a channel to you. You can offer to rebalance or cover their costs.
- You can pay someone to open a channel to you on services like [ https://kriptode.com/satsforlikes/index.html sats4like]