Bolts is a non-custodial wallet that allows you to hold an on-chain balance and a "L2" balance.

The L2 balance is held in Liquid, but you can pay lightning invoices from your balance there.

Ultimately, I utilize this tool to consolidate small UTXOs over time before withdrawing more responsibly sized UTXOs.

There is also a privacy improvement, as by nature of Liquid, the UTXOs you send, are obfuscated from the UTXOs you withdraw.

Aqua uses boltz for their on-chain/Liquid to Lightning exchanges.

As with any new tool, only use a small number of sats to play around with it and familiarize yourself with its operation before using it with any more substantial amount.

For more info on Liquid, here's a link: https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/900001408623-How-does-Liquid-Bitcoin-L-BTC-work#:~:text=Liquid%20Bitcoin%20(L%2DBTC)%20is%20a%20special%20type%20of,Federation%20on%20the%20Bitcoin%20mainchain.

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If it's helpful, here's a screenshot so you can see the basic layout:

fees?

Looks very user frenly!

Aaah I understand now. I've been using wallet of satoshi but trying to change to non custodial. Downloaded Zeus but need to send 100000 sats to activate it and can't swap my btc 🫠 I shall persist πŸ’ͺ

You might not want yet another option but if you are wanting to swap to non-custodial lightning then you might want to try AlbyHub. You can even book an onboarding session with them and they will walk you through the setup process and get you going. This option is not free though as you will either need to host the hub yourself or pay Alby 21,000sats per month to host the hub (10,500 for first three months).

Cheers Den. Hosting a hub is an added layer of tech I just don't think i need to be grappling with at this moment πŸ˜‚ one foot forward at a time πŸ˜…

You don’t need to start w that much! If you hit purchase inbound channel on the channels view you can get a channel for less than 10k sats

Really? The zeus app says minimum of 100000. I have 35k in my other LN wallet. do you think I should just send that?

That’s from the original workflow. The purchase channels in advance workflow is new. It’ll work nicely.

You're a diamond Evan πŸ’Ž 🫢

It worked! Another mountain conquered πŸ’ͺπŸ˜…

Hi Nic. My "feed" is alllllll you this morning. (Good morning, fellow normie. 🫢🏼 )

And you're cracking me up bc IT'S ALL SO DAMN (multiple layers) COMPLICATED. I'm like you, I *get* it. But I'm gonna need this to be a little more user-friendly before I can invite the family over.

Adding hubs and relays and paying for services and... what's a channel? Why do I need to watch a video or have a call with support to set this up?!

πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

I'm trying to UN-complicate myself here.

I'm just here for the freedom.

And the quality content.

But I don't wanna PAY for it.

And I'm not gonna burn my precious sats to do it. That, to me, defeats the whole purpose. Plus it's another obligation, another middleman.

#gm from the #bitcoinjungle where we have an office with in-person angels who provide support for allllll of this. For free, because wider adoption of #bitcoin makes their own lives better too.🌱

Ooft...thought it was just me πŸ˜… I'd love to know more about Bitcoin jungle. I see a Thai flag in your bio....is that where you're based?

(not the bitcoin jungle, which is in Costa Rica πŸ‡¨πŸ‡·)

this was PaiπŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­, late 2020, when there were no tourists and all the vegan restaurants were sOOOoo welcoming. don't know why i left. oh wait, it's because when tourism opened up, the tourists came back.

i enjoyed the quiet.

Damn those pesky tourists huh? πŸ˜‚ Great photo BTW! Positively beaming πŸ₯°

As a correction, this note was supposed to begin by saying "Aqua is a non-custodial wallet".

Derp.

Haha...this is a pivotal point πŸ˜‚πŸ‘