Got my Strike account / app up and running. Seems pretty cool.

Transferred some sats from my lightning node in a lightning payment to the bitcoin balance of the Strike app. Went though as quickly and easily. Can also receive on-chain with an address it offers.

Gives me a "lightning address", which would allow me to link this account to Nostr for zaps/tipping over there, or for anyone to send me lightning sats now through it's system. I'll probably stick to using my own node though.

The GBP account is fine, topped up with a sort-code/account-number from my bank, I can configure whether that gets automatically converted to bitcoin or not. Bank transfer took way longer than Lightning. Coz it's Sunday I guess? Or coz it's first payment there? About 40 minutes for that to appear.

Tabs at the bottom to switch between BTC/GBP balances, looks like I can only withdraw into my own account here (or send to some foreign banks, not including UK or USA or EU 🤨 ). So can't be using Strike to pay my electricity bill, say. Until Octopus accept Lightning payments I guess, or "bill pay" feature gets added outside the USA.

It's stated GBP price for Bitcoin is about 0.5% below Coinbase's quoted last-sale price right now. Plus charged me 64p in fees (Though it says they are not paid in reoccurring transactions).

Got a little price-graph at the bottom. BTC is up 988688.75% in the default "all time" graph. 😆

You could have your wages paid in and automatically converted to Bitcoin, either immediately or with a daily or weekly order. Live your live paying with Lighting or some other bank's credit card, then pay your credit card bill monthly from the app. Live the 100% bitcoin standard life if you wanted.

All custodial though, so if the balances get beyond hot-wallet amounts I can send out to a bitcoin wallet either over lightning or on-chain.

Excellent stuff. Thanks nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle