Cool. I restored my wallet and it's now all back to normal. Thank you.

Seems like "history" is just a descriptive log.  I just removed the entry from History but that didn't seem to make any difference and funds are still locked.

There's an "Open channel" entry in History. However, the transaction ID doesn't show up in the blockchain after trying to explore it. (  I abandoned the attempt to open channel with a merchant and I did not sign the transaction).

How could I retrieve my locked funds? It's been forever in locked state.

Wow!. It's been over a month and still I see locked coin in a LN channel from a transaction that I didn't ultimately sign.

How come the channel status keeps saying "reestablishing" after so long without automatically unlocking it??

I applied freeze sending. I then tried to force-close it but it failed: "bad-txns-inputs-missingorspent"

Any pointers? 

At the moment, the channel status remains unchanged as "reestablishing" so I tried to force close (it warned me it'd take up to 600 blocks get funds back) but it ultimately failed as it threw this error:

https://imgur.com/a/1HghOwk

It seems as if unsigned Txs have a longer time lock than signed Txs so I guess I shouldn't have to wait longer than 600 blocks to report back my findings.

At the moment, the channel status remains unchanged as "reestablishing" so I tried to force close (it warned me it'd take up to 600 blocks get funds back) but it ultimately failed as it threw this error:



It seems as if unsigned Txs have a longer time lock than signed Txs so I guess I shouldn't have to wait longer than 600 blocks to report back my findings.

Thanks. I just discovered I didn't get to sign the transaction (but I'm not interested in proceeding with it either).

Is it better to let it expire by itself or force close? Not sure how long it'd take if left alone.

Great guide!!

What's the best resolution if stuck with "Reestablishing" channel status for hours and no visible option for a cooperative close?
I already hit the "Freeze (for sending)" option.

Should I just go ahead and force close the channel before taking my computer offline?

Anyone knows the actual link to download the latest electrum LN test version?? I'd like to test it on linux.

Seems there are quite a few small decentralized exchanges but none of them seem to make it yet to the top 10. I really look forward to seeing finally a DEX with strong liquidity. Binance's DEX seems to be still in pre-alpha stage.

Roger Ver is an emotionally unstable and immature guy. Just watch his videos where he cries when defending his viewpoints or gets too childish yelling and shouting like if he was 8 yrs old.

He's grown resented because his BCH project doesn't take off as he expected. Time will confirm that BTC is king.

Over time you learn that bitcoin is still in infant, hyper-growth stage. You can see that Bitcoin is getting stronger so price will have to catch up. It always does. Your charts are making you hysterical ;-)  You just need to zoom out to see more clearly. You are still dealing with a super trendy top technology so you have to learn to filter out the short term noise.

Wall st is trying to dilute the conversation with altcoins and ICOs but bitcoin will successfully emerge as the top store of value coin and the world will then start to embrace it mainstream. If you want to help out promoting btc, you have to stop talking abt altcoins and focus the discussion on btc. That's my takeaway. Institutions are heavily accumulating btc and  are investing in the technology if you haven't noticed. That's your best long-tern guidance of where btc is headed.
 

I know. I just wanted to estimate the impact purely from a technical price standpoint to see if he should be over dumping based on his previously known btc stash or we should expect lower prices if he has more to dump. Same for Jihan since I know he's being supportive of Bcash.

Ok. So now that the price is much lower these days: was it caused by Rog Ver and team? Would his dump warrant prices this low (~$9K) or do you think it must have been someone else in addition to him?

Thoughts? 

How about now down at $10,500 ?? Just curious...

What exchange volume with shorts positions @ 100x leverage are you talking about? Read again in the article that the futures volume from institutional traders is tiny compared to the entire Bitcoin spot market.

Those retail shorts from Bitmex are small. Just look at XBTH18 Bitmex futures 24hr volume: its volume is ridiculously tiny as well compared to bitcoin spot.

So what should be afraid of from the entire bitcoin futures market ?? I think It's manufactured BS.
The hedge fund managers themselves are quoted in the article saying that bitcoin high fees are arguably a contributing factor to at least spread bitcoin FUD and short it. That's a lot more serious shit regardless of whether that's false. They are using that ammo against us regardless. So we need to keep an eye on how are we going to respond on that topic while the smart money shorts remain small.
Also, we need to look to Japan and satisfy that bitcoin market as they are our best bitcoin trading allies.

In the meantime, it's better if we squeeze those shorts beforehand...

C'Mon guys. We are massive, they are weak. Let's squeeze hard those Wall St short fuckers in their futures market. We will dry suck them to the bone as we push the real bitcoin spot market forward. WE HODLLLLL!!!!!!!

Could you please elaborate what you mean by the 'delta'?

Yeah, except no. It'd only be an altcoin in a fantasy world full of neglected reality...and obviously you need to remember NOT to buy the very peak LOL.

BTC price drop might not necessarily be compensated by an increase in BCH price. In any case, a rational trader would at least short BTC for fiat (or convert to BCH) and then buy back if/when BTC reaches a minimum.