lightning-multifundchannel -- Command for establishing many lightning channels ============================================================================== SYNOPSIS -------- **multifundchannel** *destinations* \[*feerate*\] \[*minconf*\] \[*utxos*\] DESCRIPTION ----------- The **multifundchannel** RPC command opens multiple payment channels with nodes by committing a single funding transaction to the blockchain that is shared by all channels. If not already connected, **multifundchannel** will automatically attempt to connect; you may provide a *@host:port* hint appended to the node ID so that c-lightning can learn how to connect to the node; see lightning-connect(7). Once the transaction is confirmed, normal channel operations may begin. Readiness is indicated by **listpeers** reporting a *state* of `CHANNELD_NORMAL` for the channel. *destinations* is an array of objects, with the fields: * *id* is the node ID, with an optional *@host:port* appended to it in a manner understood by **connect**; see lightning-connect(7). Each entry in the *destinations* array must have a unique node *id*. * *amount* is the amount in satoshis taken from the internal wallet to fund the channel. The string *all* can be used to specify all available funds (or 16,777,215 satoshi if more is available and large channels were not negotiated with the peer). Otherwise it is in satoshi precision; it can be a whole number, a whole number ending in *sat*, a whole number ending in *000msat*, or a number with 1 to 8 decimal places ending in *btc*. The value cannot be less than the dust limit, currently 546 satoshi as of this writing, nor more than 16,777,215 satoshi (unless large channels were negotiated with the peer). * *announce* is an optional flag that indicates whether to announce the channel with this, default `true`. If set to `false`, the channel is unpublished. * *push\_msat* is the amount of millisatoshis to outright give to the node. This is a gift to the peer, and you do not get a proof-of-payment out of this. There must be at least one entry in *destinations*; it cannot be an empty array. *feerate* is an optional feerate used for the opening transaction and as initial feerate for commitment and HTLC transactions. It can be one of the strings *urgent* (aim for next block), *normal* (next 4 blocks or so) or *slow* (next 100 blocks or so) to use lightningd’s internal estimates: *normal* is the default. Otherwise, *feerate* is a number, with an optional suffix: *perkw* means the number is interpreted as satoshi-per-kilosipa (weight), and *perkb* means it is interpreted bitcoind-style as satoshi-per-kilobyte. Omitting the suffix is equivalent to *perkb*. *minconf* specifies the minimum number of confirmations that used outputs should have. Default is 1. *utxos* specifies the utxos to be used to fund the channel, as an array of "txid:vout". RETURN VALUE ------------ On success, the *tx* and *txid* of the signed and broadcsted funding transaction is returned. This command opens multiple channels with a single large transaction, thus only one transaction is returned. An array of *channel\_ids* is returned; each entry of the array is an object, with an *id* field being the node ID of the peer, an *outnum* field being the output number of the transaction that anchors this channel, and *channel_id* field being the channel ID with that peer. On failure, none of the channels are created. The following error codes may occur: * -1: Catchall nonspecific error. - 300: The maximum allowed funding amount is exceeded. - 301: There are not enough funds in the internal wallet (including fees) to create the transaction. - 302: The output amount is too small, and would be considered dust. - 303: Broadcasting of the funding transaction failed, the internal call to bitcoin-cli returned with an error. Failure may also occur if **lightningd** and the peer cannot agree on channel parameters (funding limits, channel reserves, fees, etc.). See lightning-fundchannel\_start(7) and lightning-fundchannel\_complete(7). There may be rare edge cases where a communications failure later in the channel funding process will cancel the funding locally, but the peer thinks the channel is already waiting for funding lockin. In that case, the next time we connect to the peer, our node will tell the peer to forget the channel, but some nodes (in particular, c-lightning nodes) will disconnect when our node tells them to forget the channel. If you immediately **multifundchannel** with that peer, it could trigger this connect-forget-disconnect behavior, causing the second **multifundchannel** to fail as well due to disconnection. Doing a **connect** with the peers separately, and waiting for a few seconds, should help clear this hurdle; running **multifundchannel** a third time would also clear this. AUTHOR ------ ZmnSCPxj <> is mainly responsible. SEE ALSO -------- lightning-connect(7), lightning-listfunds(), lightning-listpeers(7), lightning-fundchannel(7) RESOURCES --------- Main web site: