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Did you guys actually verify that you lost sats? Losing sats just like that is not easy. What I think happened is that you couldn't make sense of how Blixt estimates spendable liquidity. Not only does spendable liquidity vary on stuff like the current on-chain fee-rate, but I also think that there are some bugs in Blixt's estimate - which can sometimes be noted by sending sats, looking how much you have left and then refreshing the estimate. I think the most common way of losing sats with blixt is failed channel opens (you loose the fee) and force closures due to expired HTLCs.
My case is rather strange. My phone was fine, and then suddenly it was formatted. When I tried to restore my wallet, I could never recover the channel I had there; the channel closure never appeared, and the funds never returned via on-chain. The user DarthCoin was helping and gave me several solutions, which were a bit too advanced for me to understand. (I think he's become a zombie cabal or something.) I still have my seed phrase and the backup of the LN channel. I'll try again sometime soon; I'm trying to study and improve my understanding of the issue.
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Yeah, this was a case I didn't write about. Obviously, funds will be lost as a consequence of information (seed, scb) loss.
If the funding transaction is still unspent and you have your scb and onchain seed you might have a chance of doing something. Perhaps https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lnd/disaster-recovery could be a starting point. Blixt is essentially a mobile lnd not with a mobile ui.
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YW! I think your problem is not uncommon, and I've heard about people suffering hardware failures who then need to do disaster recovery.
While I haven't gone through the hoops myself, I have heard about people force closing their channels after fatal incidents. Perhaps https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools can be another clue. I'd think that asking around about how to solve your specific problem (w/o sharing more info that you wish to share) on different forums ought provide insights...
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