I ran a rather successful routing node too, at some point, it was top50 when I closed it. I had hardware and software problems, hitting all at once. But as you say, luckily, the community is great; Nitesh and others spent hours helping me recover locked funds.

> I'm not certain if I'll reach out to authorities as I don't think they would have much to investigate.

Imagine explaining lightning liquidity to your local cop~~

I will be fine but thanks for the concern. This community is great.

LightningStruck

lightning

I got scammed out of 1.4BTC

Thanks for the write-up.

I hope it does not affect you too much in the long run.