So finally yesterday I did a couple of purchases on Robosats, and that went how it went. This morning I was finally to catch a reasonable (0% premium) offer on @Bisq of the right amount I like to buy to keep the total fees including network and exchange fees remain around my threshold of 1% of the purchase. It was a fleeting one: I checked and there was nothing, then I refresh and it appeared. But when I took it, and Bisq did the corresponding availability check, it had suddenly gone offline. So I (kind of desperately, I admit) refreshed a few more times, and there it was again after a couple of minutes. So I pounced. Parallel to that, my offer to buy was still sitting there untouched, even though I had increased the premium to 1%, so I deactivated it and I'll turn it back on next time I want to buy. Never seen anything like that, over a week with no takers is insanity. The proof of that is that the sell offer I took was a perfect match to my own offer to buy, except I was willing to pay 1% over the premium, and still this seller made an offer to sell at 0% premium, rather than taking mine. Talk about irrational (yes, maker/taker fees are different, but the 1% would more than pay for that, and then some). I wonder if there's some sort of problem with the platform that causes offers not to be seen (in either direction, because I couldn't see any "normal" offers I'd take either). I was buying as usual just a couple of weeks ago, and we had this update to v 1.9.19 last week. View quoted note →

Douglas Murray tells it. It's possible to be European, to agree that a Trump presidency was and is a necessity for the US and for the world, to even agree with a lot of what he wants (or says he wants) to do, with a lot of what he actually does, and even understand that there is a lot of rhetorical bravado and a language specific to him that must be correctly interpreted, not overblown and overreacted to... and still think Trump, like the MAGA movement at large and a most conservatives and libertarians in the US, are simply WRONG about Ukraine. It's the same in Europe with the "new right" movements. Which I know have historically cozied up to the Russian regime. From all sorts of random small neonazi groups, to many current "alternative" parties that are reaching seats of power. Some have undoubtedly been funded by Putin, and all have been ideologically fed by him. The victims are Europeans, who are caught between the blatantly anti-European, anti-human technocratic Corporate Estate mainstream regime upheld by Brussels, and an equally anti-European and anti-human old style in your face fascist regime upheld by Moscow. The US should know better and avoid such unnecessary false choices, and keep MAGA out and safe from becoming a classic example of the Soviet-era useful idiot.

Putin is THE dictator and 10 Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril  | New York Post

My Bisq offer is still untaken, and there aren't even any rational sell offers either. Super bizarre situation, never experienced this before. So I have decided to give Robosats another chance despite the insane, completely unjustified premiums... and I can't get it right. I have accepted an offer, bonded a few thousand sats as deposit, and when I submit my LN invoice to receive the sats I'm buying, it just sits there doing nothing. It doesn't stick and it keeps saying waiting for buyer's invoice. This thing is expiring in a couple of hours. Basically, I've lost my deposit, haven't I? View quoted note →