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@ Silberengel
2025-02-11 05:53:06
I've had so much grief with self-custody Lightning not being zapable, and people constantly complaining that I can't be zapped, that I was using ecash for throughput, but that turned out to be a mistake.
First, it let me move half the money, and then I tried to move the other half and it wouldn't let me.
No error or information on why not, just spinning, spinning, spinning, for days.
So, I stopped the wallet and updated it.
No improvement.
Spinning, spinning, spinning.
Then, I tried optimizing my proofs (whatever that means, no idea), and the wallet froze up completely because I apparently have 10x as many proofs as the software can handle.
I am, apparently, to be punished for using the wallet frequently and for a long time.
Tried to check, if I can backup or have a seedphrase, but the wallet is frozen.
Find that I have a seedphrase written down. Okay, good.
Stopping and restarting and rebooting the phone, nothing helped. Wallet ded.
Tried recovering from seed, and it moved forward at a glacial pace, recovered a small amount from one mint and none from the others, and then broke off with errors.
Over and over, on the wallet and an online recovery tool. No chance. Error. Error. Error.
I had changed the wallet name, so maybe that changed the seed phrase, so the money is gone, so sucks to be me. Okay, whatever.
Tried the recovery, again, no more errors, but also no more money.
I tried to at least salvage the small amount I'd gotten back out, by sending it on Lightning to a different wallet.
But it deducted it from the Minibits side and just left it in state "Pending", so that it never arrives in the other wallet, and the wallet is now completely frozen again.
I give up.