reply on: Phoenix Refugees - Where are you now? \ stacker news ~lightning

147 sats \ 25 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 May \ parent \ on: Phoenix Refugees - Where are you now? lightning

Yeah, I don't know why US people are so chicken shit scared. They just have to use it PROPERLY without any app store shit.

64 sats \ 13 replies \ @030a29f333 OP 1 May

I was worried Phoenix would start blocking US users within the app, similar to WoS. Can they do that or am I just paranoid?

280 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 1 May freebie

Save your phoenix seed.
Uninstall from app store (because is linked to your account)
Install app from their github, without any fucking app store https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases
Restore from seed. All funds will be there.
Run it with Tor activated. Done, be happy and ignore all the shit.

If you still use an apple shit, drop it now and take an android, de-googled.

I really do not understand why people cannot do these simple steps?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 1 May

This

60 sats \ 10 replies \ @Signal312 1 May

On WoS, it looks like you can SEND out, in the US, but you can't receive. You get a notice "region not supported".

I wonder, if after May 5th, or whenever it is that Phoenix is officially shutting down, they will also do this.

I was thinking of trying to use a VPN. I've received some advice to NOT do that, since lightning is kind of finicky anyway, and anything that adds complexity will cause problems.

Do you folks have thoughts on VPN with Phoenix? Honestly, I'd rather just stick with Phoenix, if I can.

60 sats \ 1 reply \ @030a29f333 OP 1 May

Yes that's what I meant originally. If I can't receive the wallet is useless, but I dont know if Phoenix can even prevent people from receiving like WoS. I'm not concerned about loss of funds.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 2 May

Run a test

Send or post invoice here

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @03365d6a53 1 May

never go online without a vpn

lightning works fine, as does everything else

mullvad are good

44 sats \ 6 replies \ @orthwyrm 1 May

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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 1 May

Recommended VPNs?

61 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 May

by @Natalia #259866

50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 1 May

Ok, for the complete newbie doesn't use VPNs...what's the best vpn to use?

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @030a29f333 OP 1 May

Mullvad is great (can pay via LN too)

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 May

proton or mulvad or lnvpn are OK

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 2 May

Proton is easy to use and secure and private

Is it the best? Probably not but good enough and reasonable price

25 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 1 May

You can look at it another way. It's Phoenix who is chicken shit scared. Maybe people want to support wallets who don't surrender so quickly.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 2 May

I can see moving away eventually - even soon. But all the new options take time and energy to understand. I need to have a working wallet over the next couple months.

I can definitely see that I need to have multiple options in the near future though...

64 sats \ 4 replies \ @030a29f333 OP 1 May

This. I dont really blame Phoenix (especially since they're not US-based) but man they just pulled the trigger so quick.

15 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 1 May

Right. It was so fast. They moved before Wasabi, whose decision was more understandable.

54 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 2 May

They must have a small legal team and a small legal budget

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 2 May

They're ASINQ, one of the biggest, well funded players out there.

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 2 May

Thanks for responding

They definitely panicked because their lawyers told them to.

Maybe it’s better to have no lawyers lol

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsMoro 1 May freebie

people freaking out over app store pullout, and subsequently begging for customer service ( customer service, in btc? ??) help due to ' losing their money' while their on chain transaction was in the mempool was fking sad and so ngmi. a voluntary app store pullout is like .000001 / 100 for regulatory attacks and apparently no one has any sense what holding ur own keys means after all this time.