Happy to help - if you ever get in a situation like this, please ping Rizful.com (npub1jlu…p2kq) in your note so we can be sure to see it.
We'd be happy to troubleshoot this if you contact us so we can do some invoice test: https://megalithic.me/contact
In our experience, there can be challenges if you try to rely on ACINQ as a routing node. ACINQ should be reliable for reaching Phoenix wallet users, but I would not necessarily rely on ACINQ to route outbound payments to elsewhere on the Lightning network.
Same with WOS -- if you run your own node, channels with WOS or ACINQ will be most useful to reach users of those services.
If you want reliable routing to the whole network, I'd suggest a node that is really optimized for reachability -- for example -- Megalith, Megalith LSP, Megalith Small Channels, Zeus, Ln.Server, Cyberdyne.sh... and lots of others.
The other thing is that Lightning is really is an always-on protocol. If you are running a node behind Tor or behind a flaky internet connection -- or both -- you can expect in some circumstances to have stuck HTLCs.
Rizful.com
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2026-05-01 23:01:51 UTC
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