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Isn’t it wild!? I decided to try Bitcoin lightning a few weeks ago after learning about it on Nostr. After a week of converting dollars to bitcoin and various waiting periods before I was allowed to transfer my own money out, I was then able to get it into BlueWallet where I could convert it into lightning. Cue another waiting period. Eventually I was able to buy my Nostrica tshirt.

Then a few days later I heard that my wallet was actually custodial, and my magic internet money will actually be destroyed if I don’t take action. And the recommended action seems to be to run my own money server? Give me a break.

I feel like I’m missing the cool part of Bitcoin Lightning. I could make a fast cryptocurrency too if I can put everyone’s money on a server that isn’t profitable for me to run. It’ll be a SQL database with two columns: your name and how much money you have. I’ll call it Bitcoin Thunder.

armstrys 2y ago

If you’re okay with staying custodial and it’s for relatively small funds https://ln.tips is pretty good. By default you operate though a telegram chat but you can link it to blue wallet or Zeus as well. Muun is a good non-custodial option for larger funds, but isn’t a true lightning wallet and can resort in higher fees for small transactions sometimes. I use these both of these in combo and it’s pretty seamless.

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rabble 2y ago

Thanks that’s helpful.

Matt Lorentz 2y ago

Thanks, it was almost scary how easy ln.tips was to set up.