Embarrassing failure of an orange-pilling last night.
I was at a neighborhood party and a neighbor asked me about bitcoin. We talked for a bit and he asked me how to get some. I said I'll send you some right now and you can send me cash via zelle.
I tell him to download Phoenix wallet. So far so good. I fired up Strike, loaded up $100 and tried to send. Failure #1: the $100 apparently needs to clear before I can send it anywhere. First time that's happened to me and I use Strike somewhat regularly.
Ok, no problem, I'll just send it from my node. So I fire up ZEUS (npub1xnf…lpr5) , scan the QR, and hit send, and it spins.....and spins......and spins......and spins......and then times out.
No indication of why it couldn't complete before timeout. I have plenty of overall outbound capacity, and no trouble connecting to the node. I guess my set of channels aren't well enough connected or the outbound capacity isn't in the right channels. Failure #2.
So at this point I'm really starting to look like an asshole.
Final attempt, I guess I'll try sending on chain from my node. So I ask him to switch to an on chain address and send the sats...success! Well, only on my side.
Phoenix gave him no notification of receipt and the balance didn't show up in his wallet until after it was confirmed. Failure #3.
Needless to say, this guy is probably not too impressed.
trey / Trey
npub1m6…ue2p9
2023-07-30 13:54:32
Author Public Key
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2023-07-30 13:54:32Event JSON
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