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The RoboSats Experimental coordinator entered an scheduled maintainance yesterday just as planned ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

The stop will take about 1 week.

You know what's cool though? We recently pre-released our decentralized (multi-coordinator) client, so you can still use RoboSats. This might be a great chance to run some trade of small size in the new coordinators. You can simply open dex.robosats.com in Tor Browser :)
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โšก Did you already try the decentralized RoboSats app? It allows you to connect with any RoboSats coordinator from your browser over Tor (and from your Umbrel / StartOS nodes soon!)

We are hosting the client app for you to try it in: robodexarjwtfryec556cjdz3dfa7u47saek6lkftnkgshvgg2kcumqd.onion

You can also use the shortcut https://dex.robosats.com in Tor Browser.

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๐Ÿค– RoboSats v0.5.3 is out! ๐Ÿš€

๐ŸŸ  The main change on this version is the much improved F2F feature by @KoalaSat .

The app now allows robots to add a location for face-to-face cash trades. The book page will display a map with all F2F orders.

To best protect robots privacy, the exact location of the order is slightly randomized (just in case someone is reckless enough to pin their own house!). The location is randomized in a radius of ~15 Km. This means it's not possible to be precise, and the exact location for the f2f trade can only be shared on the encrypted chat. Note that enabling high-resolution maps can leak your IP to external tiling servers if you are not using Tor Browser.

Of course, adding a geolocation tag to your order is only useful for face-to-face cash payment method. You can completely disregard this feature if you do not want to use this payment method.

If you like the amazing work KoalaSat put into this feature you can let him know by zapping some Sats to @KoalaSat ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿš€

https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/releases/tag/v0.5.3-alpha

nostrich · 129w
Yes! Good progress on whipping LND back into working order ๐Ÿ˜ will be posting an update (which is just a summarization of what the devs have updated us with in the Simplex/matrix/telegram groups)
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Ah, seems I (social media volunteer) was a bit too optimistic with the current progress ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…, see an answer from a dev: It's working at a low capacity at the moment, and will keep runing this way for a little time. The LND node of RoboSats behaves very unstable. It will take over a week until we can fully replace the node and be back at 100%.
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Yes! Good progress on whipping LND back into working order ๐Ÿ˜ will be posting an update (which is just a summarization of what the devs have updated us with in the Simplex/matrix/telegram groups)
nostrich · 129w
Ah, seems I (social media volunteer) was a bit too optimistic with the current progress ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…, see an answer from a dev: It's working at a low capacity at the moment, and will keep runing this way for a little time. The LND node of RoboSats behaves very unstable. It will take over a week until we...
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It's working at a low capacity at the moment, and will keep runing this way for a little time. The LND node of RoboSats behaves very unstable. It will take over a week until we can fully replace the node and be back at 100%.
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Simplex is kind of weird. I'm still figuring out how it works myself ๐Ÿ˜… my understanding is that the group host device must be online to allow new users to join the group. So it could've been that there was a bad timing that the device was off line for a moment when you tried to connect. By now, it *should* be connected.

Not to mention, sometimes a message is not visible to another user, which I guess is an issue due to large group sizes (you'll notice it takes a while to send a message in the RoboSats group). But its private ๐Ÿ˜ you can use an anonymous identity to chat in the RoboSats group
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If you have experience using an LN wallet with RoboSats, we would greatly appreciate your help updating the RoboSats compatible wallets doc! https://learn.robosats.com/docs/wallets/

Not every LN wallet is tested ... and some info is outdated. Help by opening a GitHub PR editing the doc! ๐Ÿค–โšก

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At some point when you send to cold storage (on chain) from buying sats on RoboSats (Lightning), you will have to swap out and incur on chain fee (and whatever swap service you use).

Using only cellphone, a good setup would be the RoboSats app, Blixt wallet for Lightning, and then using RoboSats to swap out at low fees or use another swap service provider with low fees like swap.diamond hands.technology to send your funds to cold storage. There are other wallets that users have reported success with, like Phoenix wallet and OBW to name a couple
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Hmm tough question... ๐Ÿ˜ biases aside though, there are plenty of alternative options besides RoboSats. Like Bisq, Hodlhodl, Peach, Agora Desk, LNP2P bot...

Find one that suits your needs!
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When someone explains why they have yet to use a P2P exchange to stack sats privately ๐Ÿ˜:

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