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Add advisory section for wumbo channels:
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We advise the implementors to provide the means to increase the number confirmations
needed to confirm large channels
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araspitzu committed Feb 18, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -192,6 +192,10 @@ know this node will accept `funding_satoshis` greater than or equal to 2^24.
Since it's broadcast in the `node_announcement` message other nodes can use it to identify peers
willing to accept large channel even before exchanging the `init` message with them.

Implementors are advised to provide the means to scale the number of confirmations, tweaking
`accept_channel.minimum_depth`, with the size of the funding amount. A rule of thumb is to
wait enough blocks until the cumulative block reward exceeds the size of the channel.

#### Requirements

The sending node:
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