Unfortunately, this type of situation causes me to agree with you, as much as I don't want to.  But as has been demonstrated by the OP's comments on Github, he expects the development team to compensate him for his loss, as if bitcoin was FDIC insured.  Obviously it's not.

The OP doesn't seem interested in evaluating his own habits and practices to make sure this never happens again.  Doing so would equate to taking responsibility and accountability for the loss, while it's much easier to blame the software or the developers.  I can't say that the OP is unique in this situation, the lack of accountability seems to be a societal plague these days.

A few years ago there were some malicious Electrum servers broadcasting a message to Electrum users directing them to download and install a malware version of Electrum.  The malware wallet would send all the bitcoin in the wallet to the hacker's address whenever the user made an attempt to send ay transaction.  I don't know if seed phrases were compromised by the same hack, but that certainly could have happened.  

I would suggest you start from scratch; fresh OS install, fresh Electrum install and make sure to verify the download before installing it, and then create a new seed.  Write the seed down on paper, and store it in a safe place.  Don't store the seed digitally, and don't store on any cloud servers.

Here's a guide for verifying Electrum with GPG: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240594.msg54223763#msg54223763

Unfortunately it's nothing new.  This is being going on for decades now, but the American people have been manipulated, propagandized, and deceived into being too complicit to even notice.

Obama, Biden, both Clintons, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnel, and Bush 43 should all be in jail.  There's nothing liberal about the Democrats I mentioned, and there's nothing conservative about these Republicans.  These are corrupt puppets of Power Money.  As George Carlton would say, when interests align there's no need for a conspiracy.

It's easy to find all the corrupt swamp-rats in Washington these days; just look to see who supports sending money and weapons to Ukraine, and who is pushing the agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex.  Throw the bums out!

13. Cory Sandhagen
12. Holly Holm
11. Nate Landwehr
10. Maycee Barber
9. Manel Kape
8. Chidi Njokuani
7. Tucker Lutz
6. Steven Peterson
5. Preston Parsons
4. CJ Vergara
3. Manuel Torres
2. Vinicius Salvador
1. Hailey Cowan

NOT go the Full Distance 7

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Yeah, and your personal data is only disclosed if you're trading BTC to fiat.  I like to swing trade BTC for XMR as a way to grow my BTC holdings, and of course there's no personal data shared during those transactions, only BTC and XMR addresses.


You're sure to find a bunch of offers for Euros, I see many with payments in Revolut, Swift, and Wise, and I'm sure there are other payment types that I don't know about. I don't know for a fact, but I'd wager there are more offers for Euros than USD.


I've never used the gift card method myself, but they are common for USD as well as Euros, and yes I see many of them. 

It can be a bit confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's actually pretty simple to use.  The great thing about Bisq is that they have a lot of really good tutorials, and the team tends to be very active on the matrix chat, so getting help is pretty easy.


It's not perfect, there are issues that pop up once in a while.  Depending on the general market, getting bites on your offers can take a while some times.  Other times they get snagged up pretty darn quick.  If your offers have attractive rates, they get snagged up fairly quickly, but no where near as fast as the big CEXs.  I think this mostly has to do with how many (or few, rather) people are using Bisq.  Once the software is able to attract more users, a lot of these issues will go away.


The privacy features are second to none.  There's no KYC and they don't store any of your personal information on a server, not even the details of your payment accounts.  All that information stays on your local machine, and the only time any information is disclosed, it's only to your trade partner while the trade is open.  That means there are no servers to get hacked and no data breaches that can leak your info.

Once you set up an account on Bisq, the only identifier other peers will see is an onion address.  If you take or make a BTC to Fiat offer, the other peer will see your name and email address.  But again, the information is only visible to that peer during the time the trade is open.


I'm a US resident, so for USD Zelle or Strike are the most commonly preferred methods of payment.  Obviously they're not anonymous since both require KYC to set up, but still fairly private since you don't have to disclose much about yourself.  There are anonymous ways you can exchange fiat for BTC, such as USPS money orders which are safe and don't require the use of real names (unless you're the recipient and want to deposit the MO digitally.)  The only truly anonymous ways to trade BTC for Fiat is face to face cash transactions, and there a few of those offers near and around my area.

Electrum may connect to the Ledger without a firmware update, it's worth trying it first.  If you have any trouble connecting, then you'll need to use Ledger Live to update the firmware.


You may be able to pull the hard drive from your old PC and extract the wallet file, if you feel it's worth the trouble.  Of course you can use the Ledger to create a new Electrum wallet file, but any labels you applied to addresses or transactions will be lost, and any frozen coins or addresses will no longer be locked.

As for "accounts" created through derivation paths, if you used multiple derivation paths, you'll need to create a new Electrum wallet file for each one.

You have no collateral, zero, zip, zilch.  If it's not worth anything to the lender then it's not collateral.  If you haven't been able to sell it in the last year of trying, then it's not collateral.  English is hard, I know.

What about some other wallet software?  The fellow on Github who's funds were also stolen mentioned he had installed a wallet on different machine, I'm assuming he means some software other than Electrum.  Have you used some other software to access your Electrum wallet, possibly?

It's rather odd, because the other guy was using the Android software, and you indicated you're using Windows Desktop software.  The issue gives me the impression that a hacker gained access to your private keys or seed phrase, but to have done so on two separate platforms (operating systems) is rather unlikely.

I encourage you to think back to any risky behavior you may have engaged in that could have led to your being phished.

FIFY

Yes, I'm simple like that.  Not that my NFL predications are much better than my EPL predictions, but I do admit to being more knowledgeable about the NFL than just about any other sport I follow.  But even that isn't sayin much!  

ETA: I don't believe we've crossed paths before, but I can't help but notice the coincidence of your name popping up in my notifications today:  It's a slow day at the office, all of our Mexican counterparts are off celebrating un hombre muerto famoso, Benito Juarez.

Base on that transaction that you posted, and the other guy on Github who's funds were swept in the same transaction, I can only assume that your seed was compromised.  Did you sign up for any give-away or stake in some air-drop, or something of the sort?  Did you divulge your seed to any entity that promised you a reward of some type?

It's been a while since I've used Electrum for LN, I set up headless server with LND, Loop, Boltz, and RTL as the front end.  Not sure if it's better honestly, requires a lot more maintenance obviously.  Nevertheless, I think nc50lc is on the right track; that error is indicative of Boltz server connection errors.

If you can't or don't want to do submarine swaps, I recommend swapping LN funds for on-chain funds using Robosats, it's P2P, no KYC, and easy to use.

Sent, 754b263b529559fb5bed9fa09209f9c8d8fbe3a13e6ad510f71391cfafaee44e

Please pay back here: bc1qkg0355wdg23rx8t5aq04pq37kuhsvtudz53atv

That definitely looks like a scammer's transaction.  Multiple types of addresses indicates that the private keys with UTXOs were swept all at once, and with a fee of 50 sats/vByte.  Only a scammer would apply such an expensive fee, to make sure that no one can replace the transaction with a higher fee.

Do you remember where you downloaded the software from?

Interesting development regarding running Bisq on a headless server; one of the contributors just posted a guide to set up a headless Bisq instance on a remote server, and included instructions on how to access it from another device with a head-up display.  The process uses a third party, open-source (GNU) software, XPRA to connect to the headless instance.  I have not tried this, so I don't know how well it works, but it seems like a great rainy-day project.

The setup instructions can be found here:  https://github.com/apemithrandir/self-hosting-guide/blob/main/headless-bisq/GUIDE.md

I sent the five bucks I owe you with a bit more and it's already confirmed.  At least you can buy a gallon of gas in preparation.

Excellent analogy.  I suspect you're right about the way they infiltrated Chipmixer's systems.  But as for the timing, it's interesting how these things regularly happen right after reports surface of their own shortcomings, failures, and downright abuses.  It's almost as if they're intentionally trying to distract us from something else...

According the Department of Justice (yeah, that's what they actually call themselves missing the Orwellian irony,) he's been charged, but the press release makes no mention of an arrest.  I don't know if Vietnam has an extradition policy with the US or Germany, so it may be difficult for them to impose their injustice upon him.  Let's hope.

So are the FEDs!  Their own institutions are failing and dropping like flies.  Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank...  Calling these institutions banks is actually a joke; they are dispensaries of fraudulently printed fiat, who've focused on spending our wealth on woke ideologies with absolutely no recourse.  If the FED wants to minimize the damage they caused, they'll have to harass the people.  And the ones they'll harass first are the ones that figured out how to strip them of their power; us bitcoiners!