Yeah i didnt like that too, but i accept that its a company and that they somehow need to make money. But besides from that, it works perfectly and super fast with Zeus so far!
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Fair play, managed to find a solution last night. Phoenix Wallet connects to Electrum over Tor now. Sorted. The individual wallets need to open their own channels but Phoenix just introduced splicing making it a lot easier for users to manage channels so perfectly usable for joe public with a Bitcoiner friend IMO.