Low rebalance amount

[sendbitcoin]

trying to use "bos rebalance" but getting the error:

err:

• 400
• LowRebalanceAmount
• min: 50000

I want to rebalance an amount under 50k and this error is fucking retarded. why is there a minimum? WHY?!!!! AHHHHHH

It should just rebalance the exact amount I specify and not care about any minimum unless I specify one.

There is no reason for this arbitrary minimum amount for rebalances -> please remove it or at least let us lower it to a more reasonable value ourselves.

[alexbosworth]

thanks for your input

[gogomickey]

I was wondering, in a polite way, the reason behind this limitation?

[alexbosworth]

There's no technical limitation but if it goes lower then it limits how much fuzzing can be done on the amount, and it feels kind of spammy to do a lot of rebalances that are not large in proportion to a normal chain fee cost. Normally you'd want to make your channel large relative to the size of a chain fee and if it's large relative to that then rebalancing tiny amounts has limited utility

[ghost]

@gogomickey I created a script just for fun to perfectly balance small channels, feel free to take a look 😉 https://github.com/cuaritas/perfectly-balanced