Two days ago I closed a channel of my lnd node using the lightning terminal. They have a very odd fee estimator with a slider that doesn’t show the fee right away so I ended up closing a channel with a fee of 2 sats/vb. Obviously it would have take days to close so I tried to bump the fee while closing this channel using thunderhub, but my Bitcoin Knots had RBF disabled by default. So, I ended up spending $60 on the Mempool accelerator to speed things up. It worked, but it was a bit nerve-wracking. After the channel closing transaction was accelerated and mined, however I couldn’t see any funds in the onchain wallet and the “change” part of the transaction didn’t even confirm right away. It looked like it had somehow taken my RBF command from thunderhub, which was odd. I had to wait for additional confirmations to finally see the funds appear in my on-chain wallet.

I’m working on some guides for the website and still experimenting with the Lightning Network, so I probably need to be more cautious, otherwise I’m going to burn through a lot of money figuring this lol

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It's really bad that these software distros are what they are in the name of helping keep users safe. I don't find either Android nor iOS helpful, and because they form the majority of choice, the net effect is that I use phones less and less.

I'd love to see it possible to see you forensically retrieve that file. After all, it is your property, I'd think.

I did the same mistake: #318818

There is still a 1M sats bounty open to help me recover the sats: #555157

I think you also need your channel partners cooperation to access the funds again because he needs to sign the new RBFed transaction with his node.

I'm not sure if those tools are helpful on the Zeus node but they could be: https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools

I made a mistake by uninstalling zeus with open channels 🤦

Luckily they forced onchain

I learnt 2 things:

-Read darths guides -Read darths guides

Literally everyone I know who has run their porn lightning node has lost sats :/

I can barely muddle through Xcode enough to run builds, Apple stuff is a shit show, but I think you should be able to connect the device up to a Mac and explore it via xcode.

What if you restored an iCloud backup to a jailbreakable Apple device? (Android device is worth a try also.)

Perhaps the iPad 7th Generation?

Edit: I know you said you browsed the files on your phone using iMazing, but did you also try making a backup and browsing that backup with iMazing? https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-view-contents-of-iphone-ipads-backup

Make me remember of a similar problem with Zeus app while trying to speed up a transaction. The app spent many times 18k sats for nothing, lost forever I suppose.

To me, the takeaway here is f*** Apple and their closed philosophy