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When I was there in the summer I tested both RBF and non-RBF txs, and found that instant confirmation was inconsistent for both. Often a non-RBF tx required a confirmation, often a RBF tx would give me cash immediately. There were no guarantees either way and the RBF flag didn't seem to make a clear difference.

It's possible that the behavior is tied to your phone number; the ATMs are AML/KYC as getting an El Salvadoran sim card without ID isn't legally possible.

waxwing 2y ago

Hmm I might have to do some more testing but my reports were not only from my own experience, but also that of others. But, not scientific because: since I don't actually want to wait, I was recently only using Electrum with RBF switched off (since they have that toggle in their interface), never on.

Also I am using them only occasionally since as mentioned I don't actually trust them (which to my mind is like a 100x bigger issue than LN support! An ATM which randomly decides to not issue cash is not OK!).

Re: SIMs and so on, good point. Behaviour might change if you are using a foreign number.

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Peter Todd 2y ago

It's quite possible that they've changed the behavior since I visited too. And also possible the behavior varies from one ATM to another.

Peter Todd 2y ago

I was using a local SIM fwiw.

waxwing 2y ago

Is threading completely borked for anyone else here? Or is it just snort.social?

Peter Todd 2y ago

I use Amethyst, which does threading pretty well as far as I can tell.