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doc: clarify waiting for timelocks
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you are not time locked any longer. Depending on the size of the channel, you
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have to wait for somewhere between 144 and 2000 confirmations of the
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force-close transactions. Only continue with the next step after the channel
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with the highest `csv_timeout` has reached that many confirmations of its
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closing transaction.
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with the highest `csv_delay` has reached that many confirmations of its
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closing transaction. You can check this by looking up each force closed
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channel transaction on a block explorer (like
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[blockstream.info](https://blockstream.info) for example). Open the result
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JSON file of the last command (`./results/forceclose-yyyy-mm-dd.json`) and
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look up every TXID in `"force_close" -> "txid"` on the explorer. If the number
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of confirmations is equal to or greater to the value shown in
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`"force_close" -> "csv_delay"` for each of the channels, you can proceed.
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10. **chantools sweeptimelock**: Once all force-close transactions have reached
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the number of transactions as the `csv_timeout` in the JSON demands, these

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