Now, just as a replacement for Lightning. I used to make small ‘zaps’ to friends and family kids using BlueWallet.

That worked well (fees were low) when they were custodial. When they went non-custodial we all got rugged.

The exit transfers required base chain transactions (I think for channel liquidity) and the fees were extreme (~$30). In many cases consuming the balances.

Anyway, long story short, I wanted to find the next best service, as non-custodial as possible. Lightning doesn’t work for our use case because of the channel opening fees. So I moved everyone to Liquid.