Just released Mutiny version 0.4.6 for both android and on the web. This release solves two big issues we've been seeing on Mutiny so far, so we appreciate all the testing and patience using the app so far. One area is for multi-device access and the other is on payment reliability.

One area we have solved relates to users that try to run the same wallet in multiple spots at the same time. We had already incorporated VSS to allow for encrypted cloud backups for Lightning data, but some users have been too eager and have ran it at multiple locations, causing force closes to happen. With this release, we use VSS to assign a timestamp lock for 2 minutes so that multiple instances can't use the same wallet.

This makes sure that one instance is closed before another runs. In the future we will allow overrides for this, and in a further away future we will make it safe to simultaneously run any instance of Mutiny across any browser, device, or application.

Another much needed feature is that we have now started shipping a more-updated view of the network to increase payment reliability. Lightning routing is difficult, but many applications solve it by probing the network to find paths. There's about 70k public channels that exist right now and many are either inactive or depleted in one of the directions.

No need for user wallets to aimlessly guess paths that might work, we probe the network ourselves and ship the same state to all. Allowing for more efficiency and reusability for path finding. This will work with any LDK-based wallet too, so it's something we could potentially offer other wallets in the future.

The framework for the remote scorer is now live, but there will be plenty of efficiency and accuracy improvements to make over time on the backend. If there's any particular destinations and amounts you're struggling with for Mutiny after this release, please let us know and we'll be sure to add them to our probing list.

We don't see payments or destinations, so we can only go off of user feedback. With this new probing tool, we should be able to detect problems reaching destinations quicker, and provide suggestions to LSPs for maintaining their channels over time.