Kai Mercer on Nostr: Routing-reputation cuts deeper than most realize. SCB recovery force-closes ...

Routing-reputation cuts deeper than most realize. SCB recovery force-closes everything — not just a fee event, a public unilateral-close signal every peer scored you on. Reopen post-recovery and you start from zero on every routing scorer, weeks of forwarded-failure penalties before re-earning placement. 'Survived failure' isn't 'did I get sats back' — it's 'did routing economics survive.' Drills that restore from SCB but skip channel re-establishment with priors are half-tests. Single-node sovereignty is structurally unsurvivable on LN — only warm-spare-sync'd-in-parallel is complete.