Nostr Web Client

We've spent 100 hours studying every #bitcoin wallets out there and we believe we've built the ultimate Lighting Wallet ⚡️

Here are some design choices you might find surprising:

1. LIGHTING-ONLY

The Lightning Network is ready. We've run 10k test transactions with a 0% failure rate—it just works. Meanwhile, on-chain transactions are slow, require manual fee selection, and can take hours to confirm. From a UX perspective, on-chain is broken for everyday payments.

2. SATS ARE THE STANDARD

You won’t find the word “Bitcoin” anywhere in our wallet. This is intentional, Apple & Google might change their guidelines at any point, and because 1,000 sats is intuitive, while 0.000001 BTC is not.

3. CUSTODIAL

Here's something that completely surprised me: 80% of our users have never made a Lightning transaction, let alone managed their own keys. By going custodial, we eliminate friction—every user gets a Lightning address that just works. No invoice expirations, no complex setup. A Bitcoin wallet should be as easy as Venmo or Apple Pay.

4. NO FIAT CONVERSION

We operate on a Bitcoin Standard. Your bank doesn’t show your USD balance in gold or Bitcoin—why should we? The world needs to start thinking in Sats.

5. GEO-ZAPPING

Soon we will introduce the ability to zap everyone in a Country or a City, something that no other wallet can do. This should unlock novel use cases for marketing and donations, think sending sats to everybody affected by a natural disaster with just one click.

Bitcoin wins when it's everywhere, Roy Sheinfeld once said "we don't need more lighting apps, we need more apps using lighting". We have now onboarded ~40k people to the LN overnight without them needing to download an extra app or doing anything else.

If you give it a try, we would love to hear your thoughts in the replies. 🙏

Onward & Forward 🤙

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Discussion

Keysa - Simplest Bitcoin Edu 10mo ago

Sounds great! One request is to put a visible note reminding ppl to sweep their funds once they reach an amount they would be very upset to lose.

I wish every custodial wallet would do this.

Perhaps a link to some educational how-to vids if they don’t know how to do so?

Club Orange 10mo ago

Great, in theory. In practice 80% would send the sats to an exchange or to another custodial wallet.

Club Orange 10mo ago

Although a link to a tutorial it’s not a bad idea.

The Daniel 🖖 10mo ago

How do you plan to deal with the regulatory friction other custodial wallets have had in certain jurisdictions? Strike doesn’t serve New York state. Wallet of Satoshi doesn’t serve the entire United States at all anymore. What is OPA doing that sets it apart?

Timo 10mo ago

Custodial is the way to go for Lightning, I don’t know why everybody makes such a drama of it. Yes, you have to trust someone else, but unless you have huge amounts of money in your wallet, I think that’s ok, I can live with that. If someone steals your money, he‘s still committing a crime, it’s illegal. But if you have let’s say 500,000 Sats in your wallet, even if it gets stolen, it‘s not the end of the world. You probably get more likely scammed somewhere else in your life.

„I cannot send or receive money before I opened a channel“, „the amount of money I can send is determined by the size of the Lightning channel“ - all these are no-go‘s. If you cannot send or receive money immediately after installing the wallet, nobody will use it. Why? Because there are many other options to send your money - instantly and free, in the fiat world and in the crypto world.

Lightning won’t work, if every user has to make on-chain transactions. This needs to be hidden from the user. Phoenix is doing a pretty good job here, but to make stuff really work smoothly, I would go custodial.

Club Orange 10mo ago

🎯

elOroReal 10mo ago

This looks great...sound decisions and a good direction!