From 9cff130b2071d8f255a480b5a8710e32227e5791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ScuttoZ <federicoscutti97@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:29:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] contrib: removed line 10 from config in
 startup_regtest.sh

---
 contrib/startup_regtest.sh | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/startup_regtest.sh b/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
index fe0351ef3f67..33cf5d36ba8c 100755
--- a/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
+++ b/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ start_nodes() {
 		dev-fast-gossip
 		dev-bitcoind-poll=5
 		experimental-dual-fund
-		experimental-splicing
 		funder-policy=match
 		funder-policy-mod=100
 		funder-min-their-funding=10000

From f1beaaef716104c35cf2145f7d6b0174fd444883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ScuttoZ <federicoscutti97@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:23:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] stop_ln: replaced hardcoded path with  (like in
 stop_nodes) and introduced failsafe to avoid errors if stop_ln is called
 before ever calling start_ln (in that case, stop_ln does nothing)

---
 contrib/startup_regtest.sh | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/startup_regtest.sh b/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
index 33cf5d36ba8c..55d0988e7e56 100755
--- a/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
+++ b/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
@@ -406,13 +406,14 @@ stop_nodes() {
 }
 
 stop_ln() {
-	stop_nodes "$@"
-	test ! -f "$BITCOIN_DIR/regtest/bitcoind.pid" || \
-		(kill "$(cat "$BITCOIN_DIR/regtest/bitcoind.pid")"; \
-		rm "$BITCOIN_DIR/regtest/bitcoind.pid")
+	network=${1:-regtest}
+	stop_nodes "$network"
+	test ! -f "$BITCOIN_DIR/$network/bitcoind.pid" || \
+		(kill "$(cat "$BITCOIN_DIR/$network/bitcoind.pid")"; \
+		rm "$BITCOIN_DIR/$network/bitcoind.pid")
 
 	unset LN_NODES
-	unalias bt-cli
+	unalias bt-cli 2>/dev/null || true
 }
 
 node_info() {

From ba78df8b6f1df667afb2d842bd6e73a4c204935b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ScuttoZ <federicoscutti97@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:28:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] destroy_ln: added check to see if nodes are still
 running. The check asks the user to run stop_ln in case running nodes are
 found, aborts otherwise

---
 contrib/startup_regtest.sh | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/contrib/startup_regtest.sh b/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
index 55d0988e7e56..1a38d21b97a2 100755
--- a/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
+++ b/contrib/startup_regtest.sh
@@ -428,6 +428,14 @@ node_info() {
 }
 
 destroy_ln() {
+	if [ -n "$LN_NODES" ]; then
+		printf "Nodes are still running. Stop them now with stop_ln? [y/N] "
+		read -r yn
+		case "$yn" in
+			[Yy]*) stop_ln ;;
+			*) echo "Aborting. Call stop_ln before destroy_ln."; return 1 ;;
+		esac
+	fi
 	rm -rf "$LIGHTNING_DIR"/l[0-9]*
 }