DaveOnealBJ9

bitcoin_beginners

Mullvad and The Tor Project releases a new web browser

econ

Secret Sauce of SN’s Success

KristySantosC0K

When @super_testnet quietly and unassumingly unveiled the future of commerce --> https://stacker.news/items/167945

news

Sunday Survey: What percent of your current BTC stash will you leave your kids?

bitcoin

Closed Loop Thinking vs Open Loop Thinking

SaraMccallZLR

People always forget about lnp2pbot, the telegram bot. It is quite big in certain regions of LatAm. 

Value4ValueEducation

Pubkey Counters Conbase $1 Shitcon Pizza Day with Free Bitcoin Pizza

AlbertByrdE6B

It's hard to articulate but it does seem  to get “user attention” to another social platform requires some sort of incentive model built in partly because of the ridiculous amount of options a person can share their opinions. Keeping it p2p seems letting off the gas a bit. I think leaving it up to the community to decide is ultimately the right decision at least on sn. I enjoy the rewards but my bigger worry is about the multiple accounts stacking sats and leaving them abandon.

Hi everyone Today I would like to share with you my, let's say, "adventure" with using Lightning Network via Blockstream Green wallet. I hope my experience will be useful, especially for those who are still hesitant or just starting to get acquainted with LN.

In December 2023, I decided to experiment a bit and opened a channel in Green wallet for a solid amount of almost 1 million sats. But I never managed to make a single transaction through LN.

The application kept giving me some error messages, each time different.

After several unsuccessful attempts and complete disappointment in the possibility of making transactions, I decided that it was time to close the channel. "Okay," I thought, "it didn't work out the way I wanted, but I'll get my satoshis back and go back to Phoenix. That's when the real epic began.

After the channel was closed, my sats seemed to go into anabiosis. They were stuck somewhere in the depths of the blockchain. It's been almost two months, and I haven't been able to get them back. Green wallet support, although it responds, but so far only promises to sort things out and brings my hope back to life once a week at best.

Honestly, I didn't expect such an adventure. I realized that LN functionality is still in beta stage. But the fact remains that my sats are still in limbo. I am not writing this post to discourage you from using LN or Green wallet. Rather, it is an attempt to share my experience and perhaps caution those who are about to experiment. It's still early, I believe.

Would love to hear your thoughts, advice and maybe similar stories.