Translations:Opening channels/19/en

• 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 0298f6074a454a1f5345cb2a7c6f9fce206cd0bf675d177cdbf0ca7508dd28852f or 0298f6074a454a1f5345cb2a7c6f9fce206cd0bf675d177cdbf0ca7508dd28852f@73.119.255.56:9735 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 (Wallet of Satoshi), Strike, Muun, Breez 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]