Lightning payment fails after 25+ attempts
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Description
I have been using lightning payments for the last few months quite often, but now all of my payments seem to fail all the time.
After providing the deposit request, the payment does not go through and I get an error window "Payment failed Giving up after 25 (or sometimes more) attempts".
In the lightning network I am connected to 4 peers, 15K nodes and 83K channels.
I also tried trampoline routing with the same results.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing a Lightning payment using the reported deposit request flow and confirm whether failures persist after 25 attempts. Compare ordinary routing with trampoline routing and use the reported peer, node, and channel counts as context. Done means the failure cause is identified and the payment flow has a verified resolution.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- networking, payments
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100