Having a good understanding of #bitcoin helps in preventing you from getting scammed.
Had a recent experience where I triggered a swap between lightning and liquid on boltz but the lightning payments kept timing out. Tried different lightning wallets but the same issue kept occuring so I figured the problem was from boltz
Tried reaching out to their discord channel for any help. Posted a message about the issue on the help channel and immediately a chat response responded. I didn't realize initially that this was spam. It directed me to a different discord server and put me on a queue. Then the agent began asking if I use Exodus wallet when I specifically mentioned the lightning transactions error.
It was at this point my suspicion was in full gear and I realized this was an attempted scam and deleted the server.
The knowledge spent learning about the technical nature of Bitcoin is never wasted.
A day later the swaps were resolved from boltz end.
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2024-08-03 22:09:04
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2024-08-03 22:09:04Event JSON
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