What a complete non-answer.
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donāt get defensive
New users donāt know who or what to trust. Thatās why itās easy to rug them, whether it be in shitcoins or ecash, or scammy custodial wallets. Nobody has ever provided a satisfactory answer to this.
whatās your solution? you never answer
I donāt have one, thatās why I havenāt been comfortable recommending it to new users, based on personal experience randomly losing sats to dead ecash mints.
maybe a custodial wallet like coinos
I donāt recommend Coinos either because of their history of security issues.
ok, let's wait a few years maybe someone will come up with something
Youāre probably being sarcastic but I actually donāt think thatās a bad idea. Itās not like thereās a tidal wave of MoE retail adoption just waiting for the right wallet to show up.
What domain do you trust?
Mints that havenāt rugged me:
minibits.cash
lnvolts.com
21mint.me
Iāve also used lnserver.com, which at one point had a data error that caused me to lose some of my proofs, but they made good on it for me, and I trust them based on their reputation.
So itās not a complete non-answer š³
how many sats are we talking? hundreds, thousands?
A few thousand in all, as far back as Mutiny. I even lost over 1K to a fedimint once.
I lost about 3k sats in the minibits mint
how? the mint is up, did you try to restore from seed?
Yes and I just watched sats disappear doing thatā¦
that must be some bug, if the seed is correct, restore should work without issues. pls try again in cashu.me
Did you try higher intervalls while scanning?
There can be big gaps between unspent proofs (tokens) where no change existed before.
Yep
which wallet were you using this seed with?
Zeus, but itās happened before with other seeds in minibits wallet n mintā¦
How are noobs expected to understand gap limits? I was told restoring a wallet was a foolproof process that works every time.
They never will
You get one chance with people, and if they think theyāve been rugged, they wonāt come back. I still run into people all the time who are convinced Lightning is a scam because they had sats on BlueWallet before April 2023 and they went back to withdraw them and couldnāt, because the node had been taken down.
Absolutely correctā¦
yes, the restore has a gap limit like with Bitcoin on-chain
