#Minibits update packs a lot of smaller improvements + tor support is back! (with small hack)

New over the air update brings a bundle of fixes and UI polishing.

Subtle yet useful new feature is the ability to send comment alongside the payment to lightning address.

Minibits now supports mint URL change in case the mint would lose the domain. Just in case.

In previous version, Minibits had to sunset integrated Tor daemon to connect to the mints on .onion addresses.

Now, we are back and Minibits can connect to .onion mints again using VPN mode with Orbot!

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Nice!!!!!! Tor support is really a game changer, well done!

Awesome! But I don't like the idea of having to use Orbot: It scares the newbies and makes orange-pilling a lot more difficult. Bluewallet has done the same which was a real bummer. I've given up for the time being and just recommend WoS rather than trying to connect them to my node. I could use Zeus but "custodial wallet" warning that shows up also makes newbies uncorfortable...😑

You're definitely right that it's not ideal. However available react native tor lib broke the build and is not further maintained so I had to abandon it from v0.1.6.

Otoh, Orbot is easier than thought at first glance: Just put Minibits into the list of proxied apps and go. Minibits niw warns to turn it on if user forgot to.