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Recovering After Being Offline

What your node checks when it starts back up.

Startup always re-checks whether the cluster is still open on-chain, even if you were offline when it closed.

If the cluster closed while you were away

If your node finds a recognized cooperative close, it reports the final settled payouts itself, and bal shows those. Nothing further to do.

If it finds a spend it doesn't recognize

If startup finds a spend from the funding output that it can't recognize as a cooperative close it knows about, it prints a WARNING and refuses send, propose, and coopclose until that's resolved, rather than risk acting on stale balances.

Don't work around this warning by guessing

A WARNING at startup means something happened on-chain that your node can't explain from its own state. Investigate what actually happened (check the transaction on a signet block explorer, compare notes with other members) before doing anything else. Don't restart with -enforce disabled to "get past it."

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