Since zombie pruning can be very slow on some devices (e.g. mobile) it
would stall lnd startup. Since it is not essential for pruning to be
finished for lnd to be functional, we instead delay the initial prune by
30 seconds.
Note that we could also wait for the graphPruneInterval to tick, but
since this is by default 2 hours, it is unlikely that a mobile app will
ever be open that long.
The routing package implements authentication+validation of channel
announcements, pruning of the channel graph, path finding within the network,
sending outgoing payments into the network and synchronizing new peers to our
channel graph state.
Installation and Updating
⛰ go get -u github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/routing