And I do so hate that the laptop I was running my Lightning node on died. And then I got another laptop and wanted to run it on there and see if there's some way to resurrect the wallet, but I'm glad I didn't as I appear to have a virus and the whole thing needs to be reset because the network card and the touchpad suddenly turned off, and it's like where's my fucking money and my nerves are just totally shot omg I so hate computers.

And all my pitiful little lump of money is in Bitcoin and I keep accidentally losing part of it, or killing the servers, or missing the right recovery keys and every time a phone or laptop dies I lose access to my fucking money and have to buy equipment and dig it out of electronic purgatory and hope I can access it because I sometimes can't because I am too fucking stupid to use Bitcoin, which means, statistically, 99% of humans are too fucking stupid to use Bitcoin and this is why everyone is like, please pay me in dollars.

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Sorry to hear. Are you still working through it?

I have also had lightning node blow up on me (Brand new SSD blew up). I had my lightning channel backup so it was easy to close everything and start again (Thanks MyNode for making that even easier than normal!). If you have the wallet keys and backup file, you can recover fairly easy. If not, you talk to your lightning peers you can get them to close the channels and the funds should return to the wallet eventually.

I still have one old Zeus wallet beta channel where the funds ($50) are stuck in some sort of limbo and I still can't figure out the command line mess to get it back. (no channel backup because it's not self-hosted) Hoping someone makes some easier tools that don't requiring guessing at what commands are needed...

I'm hoping the channels all close again, at this point. I'm done running LN on a laptop. We have the one of the remote server and I have Electrum and Phoenix and Minibits on my cellphone and it's enough.

try albyhub

Coldcard / Sparrow / Electrum / airgap / safe