From b543874670c557b1443330d02a6a90af3d81737f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bitromortac <bitromortac@protonmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:53:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gossip: start gossiping when channel is open

---
 electrum/lnworker.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/electrum/lnworker.py b/electrum/lnworker.py
index 9cdb683a9..158577e81 100644
--- a/electrum/lnworker.py
+++ b/electrum/lnworker.py
@@ -861,6 +861,12 @@ class LNWallet(LNWorker):
             chan, funding_tx = fut.result(timeout=timeout)
         except concurrent.futures.TimeoutError:
             raise Exception(_("open_channel timed out"))
+
+        # at this point the channel opening was successful
+        # if this is the first channel that got opened, we start gossiping
+        if self.channels:
+            self.network.start_gossip()
+
         return chan, funding_tx
 
     def pay(self, invoice: str, *, amount_msat: int = None, attempts: int = 1) -> Tuple[bool, List[PaymentAttemptLog]]: