Nobody lost any SATS. Not that I know of. Rugpulls are defined by real pain, not slight inconvenience.
What a great lesson for self custody.
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Yet. A lot of people are having problems withdrawing their balances today. This is a story we’ve seen before.
Who? I haven’t seen anything on balances being frozen or SATS lost.
I’m not naming any names, but some people I know have amounts they tried to withdraw that have been “queued” for several hours.
Are they using LN ot on chain? Fees are high these days.
Mostly just holding it there.
I drained WoS (there wasn’t much.)
Out of a dozen or more transactions, I did have one queued and zap failed.
🙋‍♂️
I sent a good amount of sats from a self-custodial Lightning wallet to WoS yesterday, planning to move them on-chain after the weekend. When I saw the posts about a potential rug last night, I quickly tried to send those sats over to Phoenix.
Showed as “Sent” in WoS but nothing in Phoenix - had me pretty worried. WoS email support quickly provided me with the TXID, payment hash & preimage (not that I knew what to do with those). It was encouraging, but still nothing in Phoenix for hours.
Fast forward to this morning; new channel capacity in Phoenix was available and the sats were there. Very long delay to open the channel, but all was well.
Stressful experience but a very memorable lesson, for sure.
Phoenix needs to be connected to receive. Just make sure to open it back up after you send to it. Problem solved.
