I appreciate all the concern, but there is some good news. I was able to act fast and the unconfirmed transaction was spent back into my control. You can read about it here: https://twitter.com/mikeinspace/status/1369090274480300036?s=20

Unfortunately, I did have to pay someone to construct the new transaction for me on very short notice, as RBF wasn't enabled, and had to put a very hefty miner fee on the transaction to get it included in a block hours after the initial transaction entered the mempool.

In all, I'm out about $800.

I hate to do this to a charity auction, but if I can rescind my offer, I would appreciate your understanding in the matter.

I really hate to do this, but I'm still shaken up by the experience today of getting scammed and probably shouldn't be spending more at the moment after wasting $800 today to save the larger amount sent to the scammer. @M-BTC I hope you understand. I know its poor form to pull an auction bid like this. Sorry, I fucked up.

Someone messaged me on Telegram claiming I won the auction. I'm pretty sure I just got scammed. They asked me to pick an escrow. I picked SatsLife. I think what happened is they quickly created a fake account and I was too stupid to realize this. I sent the money to the "escrow". Then the accounts all disappeared from Telegram. I'm shaking right now because I fell for such an obvious scam.

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