bkpr-inspect

lightning-bkpr-inspect -- Command to show onchain footprint of a channel

SYNOPSIS

bkpr-inspect account

DESCRIPTION

The bkpr-inspect RPC command lists all known on-chain transactions and associated events for the provided account. Useful for inspecting unilateral closes for a given channel account. Only valid for channel accounts.

  • account (string): Channel account to inspect.

RETURN VALUE

On success, an object containing txs is returned. It is an array of objects, where each object contains:

  • txid (txid): Transaction id.
  • fees_paid_msat (msat): Amount paid in sats for this tx.
  • outputs (array of objects):
    • account (string): Account this output affected.
    • outnum (u32): Index of output.
    • output_value_msat (msat): Value of the output.
    • currency (string): Human-readable bech32 part for this coin type.
    • credit_msat (msat, optional): Amount credited to account.
    • debit_msat (msat, optional): Amount debited from account.
    • originating_account (string, optional): Account this output originated from.
    • output_tag (string, optional): Description of output creation event.
    • spend_tag (string, optional): Description of output spend event.
    • spending_txid (txid, optional): Transaction this output was spent in.
    • payment_id (hex, optional): Lightning payment identifier. For an htlc, this will be the preimage.
  • blockheight (u32, optional): Blockheight of transaction.

AUTHOR

Lisa Neigut <niftynei@gmail.com> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO

lightning-listbalances(7), lightning-listfunds(7), lightning-listpeers(7)

RESOURCES

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

EXAMPLES

Example 1:

Request:

lightning-cli bkpr-inspect -k "account"="channelid0230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200"
{
  "id": "example:bkpr-inspect#1",
  "method": "bkpr-inspect",
  "params": {
    "account": "channelid0230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200"
  }
}

Response:

{
  "txs": [
    {
      "txid": "channeltxid230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200",
      "blockheight": 123,
      "fees_paid_msat": 5020000,
      "outputs": [
        {
          "account": "channelid0230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200230200",
          "outnum": 1,
          "output_tag": "channel_open",
          "output_value_msat": 1000000000,
          "credit_msat": 1000000000,
          "currency": "bcrt"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}