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ACINQ / eclair-mobile

An Android wallet for the Lightning Network
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[question] Possible to connect to a node without funding a channel? #265

Open Cannon-Ciota opened 3 years ago

Cannon-Ciota commented 3 years ago

To onboard merchants to the lightning network it would be nice to be able to open an inbound channel to them, or to users who I am needing to pay. Though with mobile devices such as phones they do not have a static ip address they would have to first connect to my lightning node. Is this possible to

  1. Eclair mobile to CONNECT (not fund a channel) to my lightning node?
  2. Once I see the connection on my end I verify their public key, then I FUND CHANNEL to them.
  3. They can now receive on lightning.

Does Eclair mobile have the option to connect to a node without opening a channel? Opening a channel to mine first is not an option because not all lightning nodes support multiple channels per peer.

dpad85 commented 3 years ago

The app does not let you only connect to a node. You can only create a channel. That could be a useful feature.