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Lightning users often hit a wall: you can pay out, but you can't send more. This happens when outbound liquidity hits zero. While the network is peer-to-peer, each channel is like a two-way bus with limited seats. One node's outflow becomes another's inflow, creating a shadow market where routing fees effectively price this scarcity.
How do you manage your channel balances to avoid hitting that inbound/outbound wall?
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2026-09-16 15:37:10 UTCEvent JSON
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