Looking for operators of seven 2018 Lightning nodes - unclosed channels
Posted 12 days ago by zeus@mountolympus [LND]
I ran node 0225313f6c76ba1fff4bb1d67e6333eb6b514dc7af60346f585cc7dd9ed7cc13f4
(alias zeus@mountolympus) from 2018 on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. It last gossiped in
September 2019 - a power outage killed the SD card and took the node data with
it, and I had no channel backups. I still had the seed, but the channel state
was gone.
Seven channels from that era were therefore never closed. Their funding outputs
are still unspent on-chain today, because neither side has the state needed to
close them.
I funded six of the seven myself - every one except the TheLND.com channel,
which that operator opened to me.
If you operated any of these nodes, or know who did, I'd like to get them
resolved:
TheLND.com 032e04b6... channel 540637x1448x1
lightningspin.com 02cf3cc4... channel 534748x337x0
TorGuard VPN 03557fd1... channel 535377x479x1
HardMoney 026d9b9c... channel 535447x296x1
bitfly 0335d4f1... channel 536049x1123x0
CLOSE.ME 02871708... channel 536475x62x1
cosmicApotheosis 03a8334a... channel 535583x1319x1
The mechanism is cooperative and safe. Register the node at
https://www.node-recovery.com/ (run by Oliver Gugger of Lightning Labs) - mine
is already registered there, so a match happens automatically. Settlement uses
chantools zombierecovery: both parties sign a PSBT locally, and neither ever
shares a seed or private key. All you need is the old node's seed - the channel
state isn't required.
I've already contacted the operators I could trace. TheLND.com, HardMoney and
CLOSE.ME I can't reach at all - if you recognise those aliases from that era, a
pointer would be appreciated.
Also worth a look for anyone from that period: the same site lists nodes holding
unclaimed outputs in old LNBIG/ln2me channels, recoverable on your own with
chantools sweepremoteclosed.
(alias zeus@mountolympus) from 2018 on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. It last gossiped in
September 2019 - a power outage killed the SD card and took the node data with
it, and I had no channel backups. I still had the seed, but the channel state
was gone.
Seven channels from that era were therefore never closed. Their funding outputs
are still unspent on-chain today, because neither side has the state needed to
close them.
I funded six of the seven myself - every one except the TheLND.com channel,
which that operator opened to me.
If you operated any of these nodes, or know who did, I'd like to get them
resolved:
TheLND.com 032e04b6... channel 540637x1448x1
lightningspin.com 02cf3cc4... channel 534748x337x0
TorGuard VPN 03557fd1... channel 535377x479x1
HardMoney 026d9b9c... channel 535447x296x1
bitfly 0335d4f1... channel 536049x1123x0
CLOSE.ME 02871708... channel 536475x62x1
cosmicApotheosis 03a8334a... channel 535583x1319x1
The mechanism is cooperative and safe. Register the node at
https://www.node-recovery.com/ (run by Oliver Gugger of Lightning Labs) - mine
is already registered there, so a match happens automatically. Settlement uses
chantools zombierecovery: both parties sign a PSBT locally, and neither ever
shares a seed or private key. All you need is the old node's seed - the channel
state isn't required.
I've already contacted the operators I could trace. TheLND.com, HardMoney and
CLOSE.ME I can't reach at all - if you recognise those aliases from that era, a
pointer would be appreciated.
Also worth a look for anyone from that period: the same site lists nodes holding
unclaimed outputs in old LNBIG/ln2me channels, recoverable on your own with
chantools sweepremoteclosed.
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