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Does Eclair store state on bitcoind for the wallet? If you would start over with a completely new bitcoind do you need to do anything to recover the funds on the bitcoind side? |
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Yes, eclair uses bitcoind to manage the non-lightning on-chain wallet part, as described here: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair#prerequisite-bitcoin-core So you'll need to backup your bitcoind wallet independently of eclair's seeds. You should be able to switch to another bitcoind wallet somewhat transparently: but the channels that were previously opened will close to an on-chain address handled by the previous bitcoind wallet. @sstone is working on fixing that and will publish detailed guides on how to migrate your bitcoind wallet while preserving channels. |
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Yes, eclair uses bitcoind to manage the non-lightning on-chain wallet part, as described here: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair#prerequisite-bitcoin-core
So you'll need to backup your bitcoind wallet independently of eclair's seeds.
You should be able to switch to another bitcoind wallet somewhat transparently: but the channels that were previously opened will close to an on-chain address handled by the previous bitcoind wallet. @sstone is working on fixing that and will publish detailed guides on how to migrate your bitcoind wallet while preserving channels.