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Since I stack sats, versus spend them, I keep very small balances in Lightning wallets...a BlueWallet that I use to zap on nostr and a Muun wallet for transacting with other bitcoiners in person (I used this one at Pacific Bitcoin).

I'm interested in moving off of at least Muun, but what's the latest reviews/recommendations on mobile Lightning wallets...particularly:

- Aqua (handles Lightning, on-chain, and Liquid...if I ever decided that was of interest)

- Phoenix

- Mutiny

- BlueWallet (old, familiar standby that I also used for watch-only with ColdCard before moving to Sparrow)

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boston wine 1y ago

Blue no longer supports custodial Lightning (unless they’ve picked it back up)

Phoenix is reliable with plenty of features, rarely have issues, but support is email only

Mutiny I’m still getting used to but super clean UX, team is cool

Aqua can be confusing at first (it displays Lightning and liquid as a single balance and - I believe - swaps Lightning receives into Lbtc within the wallet), but it seems to work well

Zeus is really nice, with a ton of versatility, but sometimes UX seems like it’s built for Lightning pros and not the average user. Super responsive “support team” (ie Evan is very on top of his shit)

Marinatin 1y ago

Been kicking tires on Aqua. It’s really good.

BitcoinBadger 1y ago

I was intrigued - it has good reviews and seems like it is designed with an eye toward the future with Onchain, Lightning, Liquid...even handling stablecoins. Not that the last use case means much to me. Most of my "gotta have it now" transactions would be in support of the circular #btc economy by paying with sats vs USD for small purchases.

I'm just not the type to want a bunch of wallets with small amounts in them - want to consolidate. I am using Sparrow for watch-onlys with my different hardware devices...now want a good mobile hot wallet that can do "all the other things" and act like the "checking account" with pretty small balances.

Marinatin 1y ago

Let me know where ya land. Not enough time in the day to do all the recon.

BitcoinBadger 1y ago

And have you tried Phoenix and Mutiny to have a comparison (or even Muun).

Marinatin 1y ago

Got em all loaded but only dabbled in mutiny but haven’t used it enough to know. Was mostly trying to get off nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq because of their whack shot gun KYC. Twas treasonous. I’ve procrastinated rebooting all the things to new lightning wallet. Epic procrastinator and I don’t use that much to be honest. trying to get the local farmers market and side hustlers onboard. And for them @strike is an easier jump.

BitcoinBadger 1y ago

Same regarding Strike - one of the ranchers here in Denver uses it. I’ve debated accepting bitcoin payments for my tennis lessons, but I’d like to just send them to a wallet vs having to use a zaprite or BTCPay server.

I have time to research stuff, since semi-retired, but still highly weight personal recommendations.

Marinatin 1y ago

Caveat...I havent done enough homework on nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q KYC practices. At first glance it seems they do the same dirty tracking that WofS and others started doing. Maybe nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a can enlighten us.

Samson Mow 1y ago

Services in the marketplace might have KYC or tracking. We cannot control that part of the user experience. AQUA’s core is non-custodial and there is zero tracking whatsoever.

BitcoinBadger 1y ago

Had a couple people weigh-in on this topic...was hoping on a few more. Regarding Aqua and KYC, how does that relate to the other two contenders (Phoenix and Mutiny):

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