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Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
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Electrum 4.02. + Lightning: Payment failed No path found #6430

Closed github12101 closed 3 years ago

github12101 commented 4 years ago

Created new SegWit wallet, Lightning enabled.

Pasted ln invoice to Pay To field in Send tab. Clicked Pay.

Error message: Payment failed No path found

How can I fix that? How to create a channel? How new users supposed to know what to do next?

Thanks

gits7r commented 4 years ago

I get this as well. I tried to do an Electrum to Electrum transaction (via lightning) between two wallets on different machine and got the same error. I can see there are more reports about this also in separate issues. Looks like lightning does not work for me.

davterra commented 4 years ago

I've also experienced this. I opened a small (.002) channel with Boltz.

As a test, I later went to the boltz.exchange website and tried a submarine swap, to send Boltz most of the funds in my in Lightning channel and receive BTC into a Joinmarket address.

When I pasted the Boltz receive/LN invoice in my Electrum wallet and tried to send, I got the "No Path Found" error, even though I have a channel open with the entity that I'm trying to send to.

ecdsa commented 4 years ago

@davterra "most of the funds" might have exceeded your channel reserve

davterra commented 4 years ago

@davterra "most of the funds" might have exceeded your channel reserve

Thanks @ecdsa I tried again with a smaller amount and it went through. The "No Path Found" error did not suggest to me that the amount of the tx was part of the problem. I appreciate the quick and useful reply.

ecdsa commented 4 years ago

@gits7r how many channels did you open? did you open them with random nodes? I suppose you are aware that opening a channel does not guarantee the existence of a path?

dmp1ce commented 4 years ago

I can pay to the node I created a channel with but not to any nodes on a second hop away from the Electrum node.

ecdsa commented 3 years ago

closing, no useful info here

dmp1ce commented 3 years ago

For reference, my issue was the node I connected to from Electrum had no public routes to anywhere else. So, I couldn't pay anything but the node I connected to.