chriso on Nostr: When you have the outgoing liquidity on a channel and it closes, those sats get sent ...

When you have the outgoing liquidity on a channel and it closes, those sats get sent back onchain. If you have a channel where the liquidity is all your partner’s side (you only have incoming liquidity), your sats are setting another channel as outgoing. You can rebalance or wait for a route from that channel partner that rebalances when it pushes sats through.

In my scenario, I had very few sats on my side as outgoing, had a really large route come through pushing liquidity to my partner. Then my partner closed the channel. So my partner kept his sats in the Lightning channels of his node and sent my sats back on chain. Kind of a dick move if you ask me. First time I’ve had that happen.