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Finally an update on Silent Payments: block-dn.org now serves pre-calculated per-transaction tweak data that helps SP recipients scan the chain faster for inbound payments. With this, testing will be easier and I'll be able to pick up SP send support in lnd again soon.

Don't know how to recover a zombie Lightning Channel? Check out the new interactive guide for chantools: guggero.github.io/chantools/doc/command-generator.html

I've fixed a bug and added 300 more ancient channels from ln2me. Make sure to run the latest version (v0.13.7), especially if you got an error when trying before!

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Release v0.13.7 · lightninglabs/chantools

Verifying the Release In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...

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PSA: If you ever had channels with LNBIG in the early days (2018-2021), read this! If you think you still have sats in such channels that you couldn't recover (e.g. your node broke down, no channel backup), there now might be a way. You only require your seed. Try running `chantools sweepremoteclosed` on the latest version (v0.13.6):

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Release v0.13.6 · lightninglabs/chantools

Verifying the Release In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...

There are over 2.5k channels and over 10 BTC unspent! Big thanks to LNBIG for providing the data necessary and MrDonty for the idea/initiative. Please RT for visibility! More info on how to run the command: 📃.md