From 1b586faec95b65a237e4533c9ebacd434a15b590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:41:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] disable peer filtering in lnworker

---
 electrum/lnworker.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/electrum/lnworker.py b/electrum/lnworker.py
index 9582a5276..63cf1788a 100644
--- a/electrum/lnworker.py
+++ b/electrum/lnworker.py
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ class LNWorker(Logger):
                 self.network.asyncio_loop)
 
     def is_good_peer(self, peer):
+        # the purpose of this method is to filter peers that advertise the desired feature bits
+        # it is disabled for now, because feature bits published in node announcements seem to be unreliable
+        return True
         node_id = peer.pubkey
         node = self.channel_db._nodes.get(node_id)
         if not node: