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It's not the Bitcoin Repo, it's the repo of "Bitcoin Core" which is only one implementation of Bitcoin. It is very prominent because it is the direct descendant to the original code by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Unfortunately it is way to prominent in the Bitcoin world to the point where people use it synonymously with "Bitcoin" itself.
I totally understand your point and agree that a newbie confronted to this would totally freak out. But that title!
Telling everyone, newbie or not, to "STAY AWAY' from Phoenix is one of the worst advice I can think of when it comes to mobile Lightning. I and many other people have found Phoenix to be the most reliable non-custodial Lightning wallet out there, including under low bandwidth conditions.
Remember DropBit? One day the balances on all those custodial wallets will be gone or seized, and there will be no restoring the wallet on Electrum.
Alternative title ideas:
- How I Lost All My Funds On Phoenix - But They Were Actually Still There
- I Thought I Lost My Fund But It Was Just Phoenix BAD UX
- The UX Issue That Could Drive New Phoenix Users Crazy!
- Why Phoenix Should Implement On-Chain Sweep
- Phoenix Should Do Better When It Comes To UX
- and so on.
Now, you're right to speak up, given that is could indeed be frightening for newbies, and you did pay for a channel that you never enjoyed to use. And I've seen the discussion around the issue being known since 1.5 years, which I agree should probably have been addressed by now.
It's probably the error messaging from LN itself being very vague. A large part of this is due to the desire to preserve privacy, which is great, but it makes it very hard for us to dig into most of our payment failures and do something about it.
The Lightning report we recently released has some great data and graphs on our failure reasons and rates: https://blog.river.com/the-lightning-network-in-2023/
I could say lack of education but I'm going with other most r like Cypher (bald guy in the 1st matrix) they know something is wrong but they don't want to look at it or even act on it would rather be plugged back in and not remember a thing and they all wanna be rich...
Since you ignored the explanation someone gave when you posted this same shit to Twitter:
This is a known bug in Bitcoin from 2010.
Was fixed by BIP-30.
There is more discussion here.
Those 50+50 bitcoins are lost forever.
Also, and I quote, “The last version 1 block was 227,835, and it was mined on 3 March 2024” is bullshit. This happened a decade ago, and March 3 2024 is in the future.
You should thank them. Reddit is a dumpster fire. Don't waste your time there. Here are some sats. Try hanging around here. Vote with your feet.
You made me into a meme. Now my life is really complete. I have to show it to my son. He is a meme guy. Thanks.
Trying to walk 9 miles from Walter E. Long Lake to Downtown, Austin. Apple Maps says 4.5 hours, Google Maps says 3 hours.
Let’s see if I’m even able to walk one hour in this weather.
The same thing we work on every week Pinky... Athena Alpha - Bitcoin Education