This is a story about (probably) loosing 5M sats while running a reckless lightning networks node.
I had some sats to spend in an electrum wallet and wanted to open a new channel with the OKX node. With lncli I opened a new channel and selected the -psbt (partial signed bitcoin transaction) option which allows me to use funds from an external wallet to fund the new channel. Everything went fine so far as I could create, sign and broadcast the transaction. Unfortunately I decided to open with too low fees and the channel opening was stuck in the mempool. Instead of just wait and drink tee, I decided to bump the fee which was a very bad idea. If you bump the fee with the external wallet, you create a new transaction with a new txid. My node and also the OKX node have no idea about the new transaction and I essentialy sent 5M sats to a 2of2 multi-sig address which only I have the key for (not exactly).
Well, fortunately there exists chantools rescuefunding but this is only helping if your peer is cooperative. Now that my peer is not a pleb which I can contact on SN, I have to go through the OKX support. After telling them that there is no point in sending them screenshots of my app or whatever and insiting they should just send my psbt which releases my funds to the tech team they agreed and now I hope and wait (... for some weeks now).
If someone knows someone at OKX: please let me know, that could help.
If you want to dig deeper, everything is documented on github
And if I don't get the sats back its a gift to all you awesome bitcoiners out there.
You can get a rough idea looking at the top stackers and then from their profiles, the amount and quality of posts and comments:
https://stacker.news/top/users/stacked/day
This is my imagined setup:
• Families run their LN nodes on their home router / server
• The family LN node will serve multiple family members each having their own accounts, wallets and funds
• The node will have only a few channels (3-5) to most used services, such as their employer, to an online merchant, and maybe their communication provider, family friend
• These channels are open for years, similar how you get a credit card and then you stay with that bank for years
• New channels are opened when the family needs more liquidity to receive or spend
• The node is "watched" by 1-3 friend nodes (LND Watchtower or CLN Eye of Satoshi)
• Each family member will connect to this node with their phone to use the network to receive and send SATs
Well, I have limited funding to work. Looking to find a little more, everything is cool, manageable, but it's a very slim margin. Any tips on how to find someone who wants to join/fund this effort very welcome.
If Substack will not adapt to Bitcoin they will be forgotten and other platforms like SN will take their place.
THIS is the future, you (platforms that still do not use Bitcoin in some way) have been warned, so adapt to Bitcoin, don't try to change Bitcoin for you.
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I want to raise another thought on the "Who should get rewards?" question. I didn't regularly get rewards for months after starting to use SN. I had to figure it out, but I liked the content available here and the interactions were great. I got by on the zaps from my posts and comments.
Are we sure that the people whining about not getting rewards have any inclination towards being valuable members of this community?
At some point I broke through and I've seen several other people rise rapidly. This isn't some sclerotic old boys club that's shutting people out.
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On the broader issue of monthly rewards, most of the biggest "beneficiaries" of the contest don't seem to be very fond of it. In fact, I'm not aware of anyone who's a big advocate for it. It does seem worth asking "Who is this for, then?" and "What is this for?"
We scrambled like maniacs to win a huge prize, so no wonder the metrics were up. It was artificial though and not as satisfying as the previous regime.
This was new to me as well. Siggy really did do a great job with the post.
@ekzyis reporting back from ... sleeping.
I felt sick on Monday so I decided to sleep. I didn't realize I would sleep for 2 days straight, lol
And oh well, I indeed lost my cowboy hat as some already noticed here
At least the new push notification worked to tell me I lost it, haha
This is a fantastic idea let me have my coffee get ready im running late (Cuz I spent little to many SATs there already if you know what I mean😉😉 saying hydrated) and lets try to onboard these non believers
Hi guys, this is my first post. It's good to be part of the stacker community.
I stopped using it for a bit because I had very little engagement.
A prestigious journalist like me needs to be focused entirely on engagement. Maybe I'll start posting more on Nostr npub1563z6kxmvuy7s8zhzan8m0hzmkavyfzg2aw6h7f0fvcvdms398csaxc9n6
https://i.imgur.com/k2bGTSK.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/qKN1gF2.jpeg
I printed couple QR codes to give to folks as tips, in restaurants, etc...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlJnTbfWAAEIYME?format=jpg&name=medium
One side has LNURLw with 60k sats, the other side has a link to tutorial from @DarthCoin :)
First off, we try really hard to call them services, not apps, since the later concept collides with the little icons on your phone and laptop and causes confusion. But that's a side point. To answer your question...No, I don't think there has been any huge surprise in terms of which services are most popular. By design, we actually don't/can't have any concrete figures about service usage because we have no insight into these devices. But in polling our customers, the result have been roughly in line with expectations. Most popular services are Bitcoin and Vaultwarden (password management), followed by Lightning (mostly LND over CLN) and File Browser (Dropbox alternative)
Have a look over at R/Bitcoin, you'll appreciate SN a mighty-fine deal more at an instant!