o_e_l_e_o , BlackHatCoiner you do know you are arguing with someone who claims to a contributor to Wasabi. That means they have to keep the narrative of Wasabi good others bad or they loose their special place in the world. Or something like that.

Due to the attitude of Wasabi they have lost users, due to the monitoring they have lost users, ignoring those 2 facts they also seem to be working towards working with larger financial institutions. And that is fine. As a business, that is their decision. As consumers it's our decision on which businesses or services to deal with.

At this point anyone who sees this thread / uses twitter or reddit and probably other social media knows what they are doing.
Anyone with a basic knowledge or caring about privacy knows not to use them.

Anything they say or people that contribute to them say that criticizes other services is just going to be seen as propaganda "us good them bad"
Go outside, enjoy the day. At this point almost nobody I know in the BTC world uses Wasabi anymore. A year ago the statement would have been anyone I know in the BTC world who is concerned with privacy uses Wasabi and so do a few others. And I really think the people still using it is mostly because of inertia. They are not going to change until Coinfirm marks one of their inputs as bad. Then they will shrug and complain and move to another wallet.

Lets face it, people are STILL installing and using atomic wallet 2 weeks after the hack: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454994.0
What are the odds of people like that moving away from this (or any other wallet) because of the massive privacy damage....

Go outside, enjoy the weekend.

-Dave

But beyond all of that it comes back to the transactions that were actually being shown. The 1st 3 mined? Seriously, that is either an extra special kind of stupid or just an outright troll.

I am going with troll at the moment, but since the OP has gone away and is obviously not coming back does it really matter.

With the amount of fake wallets that people keep buying and then coming here to ask for help, I think more and more we should start asking more questions 1st and then think about helping them. Legit people loosing their passwords seem to be very very rare vs. scammers / trolls.

-Dave

Once it's goes live I'm sure a lot of us will put it thought our own personal testing.

But it's kind of interesting when you think about it, bluewallet gave up on handling peoples funds for LN and handing the back end LN node. But in the past couple of weeks there have been a couple of other wallets (this one and lifpay https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5456290) staring to do it.

Makes you wonder who is 'right'

Not your keys not your coins, but for small amounts does it really matter? I guess everyone is going to have their own not over this amount point for doing things in an insecure way.

-Dave

Did you create a backup before you reset it? Are you using CLN or LND?
If you have a backup there may be some utilities you can try depending on a few things.
Take a look here for LND: https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools and https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lnd/disaster-recovery

-Dave

Oh look another place they couldn't or wouldn't get a license.

Here's a hint for the people still using Binance.

Run as fast as you can.

They're slowly but surely leaving parts of the world that require some sort of proof that you're not running a scam outfit. As more people want proof that they're doing shady things, they seem to be bailing from those jurisdictions. If it was just one or two countries or regions that they were leaving or being forced out of or being sued in you could say it was just that one particular country or region or whatever. With them having to stop operations in so many places you really can't at this point still think that there's not something funky going on behind the scenes there.

-Dave

And people wonder why the government wants to come in and regulate.
How many people are going to loose everything because they were stupid and gave their money away to places like this.

It's not a new thing, businesses like this have been around scamming forever. And then as they get bigger and bigger and grandma and grandpa wind up loosing all their money the government comes in and tries to control them. So they move on to the next scam.

<shrug>

People are greedy and stupid, and we can't fix that. Kind of like the people who invested in gold back in 2012 and can't figure out why a decade later it's worth less then they paid for it....

-Dave

And the OP has not come back. Not wanting to be 'that guy' but going to be him anyway. Should we start adopting the same policy of the scam accusations section where we encourage people to post TX and other errors in a standard(ish) format?

Otherwise like here we have have a dozen posts with nothing but speculation and no real help for anyone.

There have been a lot of posts like this over time and they all seem to end up the same way.

-Dave

What is the difference between yours and the GekkoScience Compac F?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.0

Things like this are and will always be a hobby project for people to play with but there is nothing wrong with making it and trying to sell it.

Just keep in mind, you will have to support it, and deal with issues with them and so on.

But, it still looks like a cool project.
Post image links, since you are a new users they will not show up in the post but people can quote / click on them.

-Dave

Isn't that with any method of payment. Like I said above.

Eliminating everything else, if you don't see a need for something or doing think it's going to improve your business, you are not going to do it. That really is where all these places like Square that process payments for credit cards come into play. If all a merchant has to do it click 'I Agree' a few times on the portal they already go to daily to check credit card processing things and be able to take BTC / LN / Crypto whatever then they are more likely to do it then jump though a bunch of hoops.
Bring it back to credit cards. Most legitimate places CAN get better rates then these terminal in a box services. But it's a lot of time and effort and paperwork and so on. Or you can pay the extra percentage and just get a terminal shipped to you. It dies, they ship another one, no jumping though hoops. Have a different issue, no having to deal with the CC processor, the bank, whoever else. It's 1 point of contact and done. So yes LN is going to benefit as these services start to put it in their terminals and let more merchants accept it with no other work needed.

-Dave

The pay by address is just a regular lightning address telling someone to send to davef@wherever.com is a lot easier then telling them to send to a long lnurl
Looking at it, it's very similar to wallet of satoshi.

Yes it's custodial, but as I like to point out ANY funds on your phone are not secure so you should not have that much in it anyway. So yes it's bad, and not your keys not your coins. But it's another LN wallet out there and that is a good thing.

As for people running their own LN node, yeah I do it and so do a lot of other people here, but we are edge cases. Most people just want things to work magically in the background and don't want to know how or why.

-Dave

As block / others start deploying LN to their terminals it's probably going to be a done deal by just the amount of them that are out there.
Merchants are lazy, they just want to get paid they don't care how people pay.
So, if all they have to do is click 'I Agree' on the screen that pops up on their back end to and they can take LN, or any other form of payment they will probably do it.

Now, will they get crypto or just fiat transferred to them is a different story. And how much will said services charge. And so on.
Those going to be the main sticking points of adoption happening.

-Dave

Could be worse, you could be mining at a pool that has not found a block in over a year and a 1/2

But seriously, BGP routing swaps, misc firewall issues, DNS issues, and so on. Anything can lead to a few seconds or a minute where you can't reach something.
Your LA node is at Vultr, they have scheduled maintenance this weekend. There *should* be no disruption, but if there is do you want my miner to idle for 5 minutes waiting for things to come back or go someplace else and check back in a minute or 2.

The just use another location does not help since if it is you then it just wastes more time till it hits the next fail over.

Even if it's a few hashes here and there why let a miner sit idle?

That is actually where places like NH do work well, as was pointed out no matter what you mine, if there is an issue at your primary pool you can have them as #2 and just get paid in BTC.

Shrug, just took a look, the last time the BTC miners flopped over was between 3 weeks and 5 months depending on their location. The LTC all have been steady since Feb 9th when I did a thing.

The shit coin miners are all over the place. Shocker.....not.

-Dave

That I agree with.
At this point there is nothing that can be done. The trust is gone, the lack of communications is ridiculous, and so on.
The fact that you can still download and install the app is just more proof that they don't care / don't have a clue / are in on the theft.

-Dave

If they screwed up enough to have people get access to the users private keys then turning off their servers will make 0 difference.
And people can already get their keys, import them into other wallets and move their funds.

The rest really does not matter at this point.

Like I have always said, I have some coins in another multicoin wallet that is closed source.
The amount of funds I have in it are worth less then the phone it's on, and I use cheap(ish) phones.

-Dave

One of the things that is actually making this easier is the fact that since 2010 when I got my 2nd kindle I have offloaded 1000s and 1000s of books.
Mostly cheap paperbacks, but some nice ones in there too. What was good was I was in no rush and could go though them over time and move them out.

Changing the plan a bit but I have reserved a table at 2 upcoming car show / swap meet things. 1 later this month and 1 in August.
Going to concentrate on pulling the car stuff over the next couple of weeks and see how that goes. Going with the hope that if I make it cheap enough I can have one of the other vendors take all that I bring and then negotiate for the rest that I have.


That's really a big part of it. I could probably fit 99% of the crypto stuff in 1 medium size storage tub. (27galllon / 100 liter) with a lot of room to spare.
But what really is the point of having some of them if you are not going to put them out to see.

-Dave

Usually people committing tax fraud.
If they were moving stolen money wires are easy to trace.
If they were laundering money wires are easy to trace.
There are much easier / simpler / out of view ways to move $2.5 million then a very easy to follow / trace wire.

But, we don't know how smart they really are when it comes to finances and moving money.

-Dave

The technical side of it is easy, many people run nodes that don't drop anything from the mempool ever so transactions stay active.

It's also been proven, that most miners have no limits on their mempool so they could grab any transaction whenever and mine it. That's their job to mine transactions and put them in the blockchain. There's absolutely no reason they should ever drop anything.

If you're asking or want to discuss what mempool got so bloated that's a different story. But not really for this post / thread. As for the fees, it was a legit question I was asking. I don't use shoppy so I don't know if there is a way to hold payments and make 1 larger TX or adjust the fees that are used to send the TX or anything else. And, for the services I do use for the most part they are using the proper fees to get them into the next block or two.

-Dave

Is there a way for you to control the fees when withdrawing from them? Otherwise, I can see this happening again.
Or at least, have the coins going to a wallet that is 100% under your control so you can do the CPFP transaction. Sending it to an exchange there's not much that can be done.

I know they also offer the ability to use other coins, have you switched to those?

I just don't understand the concept of a crypto online marketplace like them not paying the proper fees . Especially if the person doing the selling is the one paying the fees anyway, it's not like it comes out of shoppy's pocket.

Anyhow, glad to see it worked out.

-Dave

Following up with that thought, it is why they are my failover pool for all my equipment.

Main Bitcoin pool goes down or for whatever reason my miners can't connect to it it goes to the secondary pool which is nicehash.
A script miner can't connect to either of my primary LTC pools, it fails over to nicehash.

Same with just about every other rig I have any place mining any algorithm.

And in the end, it all gets converted to BTC without any intervention from me. Could I be generating more here and there with better failover management and sending it to pools with lower fees? Possibly.
Would it ever amount to enough to be worth the time and effort to go through all that hassle? Never.

-Dave

Also, if EVERYTHING ELSE FAILS you can also try to use chantools https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools
This should allow you to get the BIP32 key from the wallet.db file and you can then import the private keys from there.

Before doing anything with the above script make sure you have made a bunch of backups.

Also, a bunch of 8 & 9 sat / vb got confirmed so there is some chance of this clearing if the trend continues with dips into the single digits.

-Dave