Core Lightning Node open channel stuck at 9 peers

@oldguy reported a similar problem recently on this thread here. Basically, the transaction to open the channel was never sent to your Knots node (or it got filtered out). This appears to be a bug with Core Lightning. Unfortunately, I’m not sure you’ll be able to regain the sats you have locked up in those channels (perhaps oldguy can confrim whether or not he was able to get the sats back in his case).

My recommendation at this point (since the problem has happend to multiple forum members now) is to not open channels from Core Lightning. Instead, create a LND node, and open a chanel back from your LND node back to your Core Lightning node (via the Ride the Lightning service). If that succeeds, then open a channel from your LND node out to the larger network, and send sats out from it to open inbound liquidity. This will create a path for your mining rewards to flow from Ocean, into your LND node, and from there into your Core Lightning node (without needing to open any channels from Core Lightning which might experience the bug)

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