Sweep the force-closed state of a single channel manually if only a channel backup file is available
Sweep the locally force closed state of a single channel manually if only a channel backup file is available. This can only be used if a channel is force closed from the local node but then that node's state is lost and only the channel.backup file is available.
To get the value for --remoterevbasepoint you must use the dumpbackup command, then look up the value for RemoteChanCfg -> RevocationBasePoint -> PubKey.
Alternatively you can directly use the --frombackup and --channelpoint flags to pull the required information from the given channel.backup file automatically.
To get the value for --timelockaddr you must look up the channel's funding output on chain, then follow it to the force close output. The time locked address is always the one that's longer (because it's P2WSH and not P2PKH).
chantools sweeptimelockmanual [flags]
chantools sweeptimelockmanual \
--sweepaddr bc1q..... \
--timelockaddr bc1q............ \
--remoterevbasepoint 03xxxxxxx \
--feerate 10 \
--publish
chantools sweeptimelockmanual \
--sweepaddr bc1q..... \
--timelockaddr bc1q............ \
--frombackup channel.backup \
--channelpoint f39310xxxxxxxxxx:1 \
--feerate 10 \
--publish
--apiurl string API URL to use (must be esplora compatible) (default "https://api.node-recovery.com")
--bip39 read a classic BIP39 seed and passphrase from the terminal instead of asking for lnd seed format or providing the --rootkey flag
--channelpoint string channel point to use for locating the channel in the channel backup file specified in the --frombackup flag, format: txid:index
--feerate uint32 fee rate to use for the sweep transaction in sat/vByte (default 30)
--frombackup string channel backup file to read the channel information from
--fromchanneldb string channel input is in the format of an lnd channel.db file
--fromsummary string channel input is in the format of chantool's channel summary; specify '-' to read from stdin
-h, --help help for sweeptimelockmanual
--listchannels string channel input is in the format of lncli's listchannels format; specify '-' to read from stdin
--maxcsvlimit uint16 maximum CSV limit to use (default 2016)
--maxnumchanstotal uint16 maximum number of keys to try, set to maximum number of channels the local node potentially has or had (default 500)
--maxnumchanupdates uint maximum number of channel updates to try, set to maximum number of times the channel was used (default 1000)
--pendingchannels string channel input is in the format of lncli's pendingchannels format; specify '-' to read from stdin
--publish publish sweep TX to the chain API instead of just printing the TX
--remoterevbasepoint string remote node's revocation base point, can be found in a channel.backup file
--rootkey string BIP32 HD root key of the wallet to use for deriving keys; leave empty to prompt for lnd 24 word aezeed
--sweepaddr string address to recover the funds to; specify 'fromseed' to derive a new address from the seed automatically
--timelockaddr string address of the time locked commitment output where the funds are stuck in
--walletdb string read the seed/master root key to use fro deriving keys from an lnd wallet.db file instead of asking for a seed or providing the --rootkey flag
-r, --regtest Indicates if regtest parameters should be used
-s, --signet Indicates if the public signet parameters should be used
-t, --testnet Indicates if testnet parameters should be used
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