0 sats \ 2 replies \ @b3a706bcce 11 Dec 2023 freebie \ on: How To Get Robbed 4 BTC And Be Ignored by Anycoin.cz and BTCPay team bitcoin
Firstly, the Lightning Network has good use cases for b2b, but it should have never been used as a global payment network for retails. Small blockers didn't have any other good scaling alternatives in 2017, so they went all-in with the LN.
Secondly, you've made a serious mistake by trusting an experimental software with all your bitcoins. It's very unfortunate that the developer didn't even reply to your post, but we can't expect him to refund you since LNbank is an open source software under the MIT license and it's very hard to verify that a victim and an exploiter are different individuals.
Thirdly, the adoption in El Salvador is still pretty low and the Bitcoin Citadel is more vulnerable than guerrilla-style surviving strategies like a parallel economy.
It's not my purpose to argue about possible solutions to scale Bitcoin. I'm trying to focus on the problem of releasing software that is not properly tested.
Yes my mistake was to trust the LNbank and BTCPay. If I didn't try to onboard more people into Bitcoin I would still have my bitcoins.
Regarding the victim/exploiter argument... Those who really know me know that I never stole from anyone.
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Your mistake was also to trust a lightning node to be secure at all. You should consider those funds as at-risk and be prepared to lose them all at any time.
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