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PSA: The functionality of multiple Fedimint federations is significantly degraded due to severe DNS issues.

It seems to be the case that some federation guardians have an XYZ domain that the DNS registrar has taken over. Freedom One and Bitcoin Principals appear to have one guardian offline due to this.

Unfortunately, despite the server and keys for these guardians being intact, there is no way for the DNS of a guardian to be swapped out after the fact. We became aware of this issue last week and then became aware that multiple federations are experiencing this: https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/issues/5482/

Given the critical state of these federations, with one guardian out of four being permanently offline, it's essential that if you have funds in these federations, you should withdraw them immediately. Unfortunately, we're unaware of other public federations, so you must withdraw to another lightning or on-chain wallet.

From our experiences, intermittent/connectivity issues can occur with guardians, and this may result in errors if not all three remaining guardians are consistently online. No other guardian of these federations has XYZ or other domains like it. So, if you're having issues, please try again later.

Unfortunately, not much can be done on the Mutiny side, so we're removing the federation setup flow in the UI as a first step. Sorry for the inconvenience.

An update to our apps have been made that should help performance when a single fedimint guardian is down. Please continue withdrawing out of the Freedom One and Bitcoin Principals federation. The LN gateways might be experiencing heavy load so try on chain if you need to. Getting plenty of reports of successful withdraws so far today, try again if you had issues before.

The fedimint team is working on short and long term solutions but for now it's best to withdraw and remove the federations. We have turned off lightning addresses for now too.

Sorry for the issues.

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Onward 🫡🧡

Turned off LN Addresses for every Mutiny user?

Yes. Those rely on federations and there's no public working ones. We are asking people to withdraw and leave federations, not keep depositing into them.

Bummer. The federation I’m apart of is working.

I suppose no ETA on when they’ll be reenabled?

We'll consider it for the others. 99% are probably using public ones and this drastic measure needs to be put in place.

Understandable.

Hopefully this can all get sorted soon, and we can back to zapping.

Godspeed.

How can I swap from fedimint to self-custody if balance is below 100k eSats ?

You send to a different wallet over ln or on chain.

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Thoughts on a Liquid-style fedimint with guardians from a mix of trusted parties (including yourselves)?

Successful.

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I was able to withdraw 10k sats from the freedom one 👍. Thanks.

Successfully withdrew from Freedom.one. I really like the Mutiny + Fedimint approach, so wishing you all luck with fixing the issue with the federations. When this is up an running again, its gonna be my preferred onboarding wallet for new bitcoiners. Now, I just have to deal with my wife, she is not so happy about this. I might have to sponsor the opening fee for a channel on Phoenix for her, to save lightnings´ reputation.

I was able to withdraw onchain last night. 🤙🤙

Was able to withdraw via LN, apprentice the support guys

can we just use tor hidden services instead of DNS?

I appreciate and support you guys, and understand the situation, but I would've appreciated an earlier heads up on you turning off Lightning addresses

We posted this 3 days ago before we turned it off. Sorry for the inconvenience, but given there's no usable public federation that exists in a healthy state, it's useless right now.