The lightning network is hard to make simple user interface for. A lot of wallets are experimenting with different models. Muun chose to pay for lightning invoices with onchain transactions at the time of payment. The problem is that in high fee environments, like we have been in recently, you pay ridiculously high fees for lightning payments. That’s my high level understanding. One thing to note with phoenix, you should try to make your first transaction pretty large because that’s what will create your lightning channel and so you will have to pay on-chain fees for it
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Thanks for this info. I feel bad it was the wallet I most recommended to friends and family new to bitcoin from a simplicity standpoint but I suppose if people aren’t using it to spend often then there shouldn’t be any real issue?
TBH it’s a little hard for me to evaluate how big of an issue it is for Muun users. It’s quite technical, multi-faceted and may? still playing out. Sorry I can’t provide a better explanation. I tried to search stacker news and read all the articles/comments but still can’t get my head around it exactly. I think doing nothing until fees go down might be the best course of action
Copy, thanks!