Nah... That's one trade-off with lightning vs liquid. Much easier to natively swap liquid to on-chain and vice versa through Aqua wallet
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Why would I do that though ?
Well speaking from Alby hub standpoint.
From a fully self-custodial standpoint.
Depends on your sources of BTC. I have some that don't support lightning, so I can peg in to liquid to build up a good UTXO size. Also, while there are some trade-offs with liquid... When onboarding new people they don't have to worry about channel management. And it has a seed phrase for the liquid Blockchain so it's as close to self custody as you can get but make it easy for small amounts.
Unless I’m sending all my Sats from Alby to aqua to do the sending and swapping but thats an even longer and more expensive process I’d think
It's still a boltz swap. But like I said I just use it for small amounts until I can have over 1 M sats. But I like liquid for onboarding waiters/waitresses. It's easier than telling them about channel management. Otherwise you're at custodial lightning instead.
But why use Aqua though is what im trying to understand. Like why send sats from Alby go to aqua to then swap to on chain to then send again to cold storage
Wouldn’t that be more fees and more steps or no?
I use it for 2 reasons:
1) there's an exchange I use that doesn't support lightning... So I can send 100,000 sats on-chain to a peg in address of liquid. This gives me custody of smaller amounts of BTC until 1M sats. Can't use alby hub in this instance.
2) I like to try and get waiters/waitresses to accept their tip in BTC and it's cheaper to send liquid address to liquid address, and not give a newbie the headache of managing a channel and they still take self custody.