Just for fun, I recovered my Phoenix wallet in Sparrow to see if there was anything left. There was!!! But I don't know what use it could ever serve. I'm probably not going to execute this silly transaction.
So is this UTXO just going to be an old truck rusting in the forest? Are these sats now a monument to the great Phoenix's flight from the land of the free and the home of the brave? Are these rare sats now? (I'm just kidding, shit-coiners. This wallet's not for sale.) But seriously, is there ANYTHING useful I could do with these?
Is there not a wallet that will let you create an transaction from two different private keys.
If so you could wait till your next on chain transaction and lump it in together.
I might be showing my ignorance, I am not sure if you can have a BTC transaction with created from two different keys.
Seems like PSBTs support that, see my emphasis:
I can imagine a scenario in the future in which someone has gathered the seed phrases of dozens of abandoned wallets like this and could use this technique to harvest enough of them at once for it to really be worth-while. It kind of makes me want to collect a repository of people's abandoned sats and create a UTXO graveyard ripe for Dr. Frankensat!
if you can get the private key (don't know much about Phoenix or Sparrow) you could presumably import it into Core and use it as another input in a tx with other amounts in the wallet - whether it's worth it economically is another thing, but it could be used as an input and not become another dust UTXO in that seemingly ever growing graveyard of unspendable outputs.
Hold off to see if Ark can do anything with these amounts
I still haven’t got around to researching ark. This might be the kick in the pants I need!
Did you close the channel in Phoenix rather than sending out your sats?
So these are the leftover onchain sats after the channel was closed. I’d love to get them on lightning, but I’d be like a 300 sat channel that could never close, and I don’t think that’s even possible…although it would be silly and fun.
those 300 sats are from anchor outputs reserve. When you had some more sats into Phoenix, you should not use LN to send them out, but close the channel or send them to an onchain address directly. Once you select to send them all, the channel will be closed and nothing left.
Hey thanks @DarthCoin! Unfortunately, the channel closed a while back. This is literally the only UTXO left in the wallet with no lightning channels at all.
forget it. move on.
Lol keep the key in case we get covanants or something that can lift a UTXO into a higher layer like ark, wonder if you can't make it a federations problem like sending it to a fedimint and then get eCash in exchange
Stranded sats. How will this ever be solved? My channel closed as well, but I had 300,000 sats in my wallet. I was not a fan of the force close.
Oh woah! That’s real money. I was just joking, as I think my real plan with these is to let them rust in this forgotten wallet forever, but you should definitely recover those if you’ve really still got 300,000 left there.
I have this very promble with my Yellow Card
I would get some kind of open dime device, and set the transaction fee to 1.01 sat/vb and pray to Satoshi that it gets there. If it does get confirmed, the device should be held for your grandkids.
Or just buy another $2 worth of sats. Lol
Giveaway to someone
Um a donation to the rest of us!
Let them live in purgatory forever.
Congrats