Yes, but I’m not talking about cross-border payments and occasional server outages, which happen to every centralized service at some point or another. I’m just talking about how it took several attempts using multiple wallets to be able to pay one invoice on a random Tuesday evening.
Venmo doesn’t work across borders, and even then, venmo goes down due to “internal issues” as well? https://x.com/venmosupport/status/1616928022871044097
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I understand your frustration, I’m not saying there aren’t problems. I’m just pointing out that this could’ve happened to you even with venmo on a random Tuesday evening as well, it is a one off event, where none of your lightning apps worked. Lightning however is just a protocol. It does not go down.
If anything I see this as a bad customer experience for nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq as a custodial wallet you should guarantee uptime. Maybe publish uptime stats, that’d give users a lot of confidence. All the other apps you listed a
were self custody solutions which are always going to depend on your hardware,
internet connectivity, and peers you’ve opened a channel with.
Lol sounds like you need more wallets! Seriously through OBW (previously SBW) has always been good, sadly think it might be EOL now through. Also the lighting support in electrum is working really well for me now, used not to.