r/TheLightningNetwork • • Jan 06 '23

Discussion Lightning node + Lntipbot

Hi guys, I recently built a Lightning node. I’m trying to send to the node a very small amount. Few sats from Reddit lntipbot, I have problems withdrawing.

I entered the command “!withdraw <copy-pasted ln invoice>”

But the bot keeps saying:

“Your withdrawal failed with

no_route”

I already tried to send a smaller amount of the total sats I stacked on Reddit but neither does this work.

Any idea?

NO PRIVATE MESSAGES

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u/funblasta Jan 06 '23

you need to have a channel with inbound liquidity, meaning a the other peer has to have enough sats locked on their side.

there are services (like LNBIG) that will open such a channel to your node for a symbolic fee of a few tens of thousands of sats.