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124 sats \ 5 replies \ @wilto 29 Mar \ on: Stacker Saloon

Messing around with a lightning_pub node for shockwallet, I've lost my fund
because I wanted to reset my account (that option does not exist), and instead thought that to delete the attached source node would allow to resync the balance.

The result was that once reattaching the node, the funds were gone.

The node still exist of course, the funds are still in the node (as far as I can see from the journalctl --user-unit lightning_pub -f) but the shockwallet.app address assigned to the account is now different, so I guess that was the price of this lesson for me. It was not much but still 11K.

I asked ppq.ai for help on this and it produced this report
naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqd3whlagjkktp2jwctc3jkd3cge6as38tasm80hwrxcmdeyjufceqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqz44x7e35xfpygjtt0fgnsujxxdkh5vj0de6sgqwk9d

still working on it

22 sats \ 2 replies \ @deSign_r 29 Mar

Your funds are not lost, you simply lost access to it. As per good practice, by now anyone should have clear to always make a backup of your node or wallet. Did you? Well, good news becasue Lightning.pub does a backup for you and associate it to your nostr npub.

If not did you at least have a backup of your nostr nsec you created the wallet with?

Sounds like you running your own pub, just to double check: Did you use your own LN.pub or the default bootstrap one?

cc: @justin_shocknet

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 29 Mar

Yea this sounds like you just created a new wallet account, the AI is partially correct, the funds are still part of Pub's assets... you just have a different wallet user (nsec) connected to it. Each source in a wallet is added with a unique nsec, so you could technically add the same source twice within the same wallet (for multiple lightning addresses for example)... when you removed it from the wallet it deleted the nsec from wallet, when you re-added it it created a new one.

The steps to reconcile will be similar to in the other thread, you can manually manipulate the Pub database user table.... there 0 the funds to the abandoned account and add them to the new account

Stop Pub

Take a backup for good measure

Delete the CSV file

Edit the user table with DB Browser for SQLite

Restart

18 sats \ 0 replies \ @wilto 29 Mar

Thanks for the help, that whole thing followed the other discussion (about reconciling the balance, after setting up the node 'backup and restore' where I ended up with a different balance) #1461902

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 29 Mar

I asked ppq.ai

LOL instead of just asking Justin. Or this is a disguised ad for that crap ai ? That says a lot about your brain capability.
Anyways asking a stupid AI bot for support is the MOST IDIOTIC THING EVER

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @wilto 29 Mar

Not a disguised ad, I wanted to learn by myself and usually AI is helping because it acts as a rubber chicken.

It is all for learning, and I am humbled that Justin took the time to answer.
I might get the funds back, that would also restore my self esteem.