Create empty (0 sat) LND accounts?

[jimmydjabali]

Hello,

I'd like to create empty accounts with litd but seems the minimum to create an account is 1 sat.
Is this is a technical limitation why it's not possible to create an account with an initial balance of 0 sat, or is there a workaround to make it possible?

Thanks a lot!

[ellemouton]

Hi @jimmydjabali

The error is coming from this line which is only on the CLI level. So you should be able to get around this by using the RPC directly if you need to. But yeah - I think there is no reason that it cannot be 0 but I stand to be corrected (cc @guggero )

(btw - i think this discussion should have been created on the LiTd repo instead)

[jimmydjabali]

Unfortunately, there is a similar error a new account cannot have balance of 0 thrown here:
https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-terminal/blob/master/accounts/store.go#L111

[ellemouton]

@jimmydjabali - will be fixed in : lightninglabs/lightning-terminal#718