Well I’ve been having the worst experience.
Trying to get in on with Alby (npub1get…0nfm)
Setting it up albyhub on raspberry pi, transferring funds, trying to open a channel, thinking I made a mistake, I opened another thinking I could just close as the funds were, after all within tx alby wallet, or so I thought.
I got no confirmation on «close channel», but I got the option to redeem Onchain Funds, this was very poorly explained so I thought it would redeem from the transfer address from the channel tx, really it asked for the address I wanted it redeemed to, I was idiot I know, but there was no indication that funds would be transferred out of my possession.
So I managed to transfer all my redeemed funds out of my wallet without knowing this is what this function would do.
Not receiving funds back on close channel I thought maybe I needed to add receiving balance so I opened an invoice to «pay with another wallet», I thought this invoice would pay the fee and place the rest in my saving account, I was an idiot again, transferred to much for the invoice to registrer so now the sats just sitting there in there invoice address, did not increase my «receiving capacity», the payment has to be exact, again I did not know this and there was no indication it had to be exact.
Then my albyhub started acting up, disconnecting not allowing me to reconnect. So I update raspberry and albyhub, now I cannot even unlock my wallet, can only ssh into raspberry, albyhub.service fails, updating albyhub and rebooting only freezes the raspberry when alby starts running.
I lost more than 500k sats trying to get this running.
Now they are telling me that if I cannot unlock my albyhub, I cannot retrieve any funds I still might have. I dont think I have any funds left, to me it seemed all my channel funds was transferred out of my wallet with the redeem function. I asked them to look at my blockchain transactions to confirm this, but they are either not looking, or not telling.
Like they could just look at the transaction and see what happened with the redeeming of funds… So then I’m thinking they are not telling because they see the funds are lost and don’t to come and be outright like yeah, those coins are gone, sorry for inconvenience.
I got fucked trying to wrap my head around this and If you’re an idiot like me.
I would not recommend.
I know this amount is not a lot, but to me as a student - I could’ve easily lived off this for a month or two.
GetAlby?
I feel like I got rekt.
I’ve been robbed at gunpoint and that experience was more pleasant than this.
Signing off for now, my albyhub won’t come back online, at this point this is way over my head and I do not know what to do, how to fix, I’m afraid if I try anything else I will just fuck up and lose even more so I’ll stop here.
I’m just left with the feeling that lightning wasn’t for me, I thought bitcoin was supposed to be for everyone.
I feel like those guys who’s been victim to pig butcherialbycams, like how could you fuck up like that? how stupid can you be?
Well I didn’t even need a scammer to lose my coins with alby.
#albyhub #getalby #getrekt #alby #damus #lightning #wallet #bitcoin #asknostr #zap #getbroke #mistakesweremade
Attentin / Peter
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2024-08-02 22:21:25
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