Not all Lightning wallets are the same. Some have a setup fee because it does some technical lifting in the background to make it fully self custodial, such as Breez, or Phoenix, Mutiny, etc. Some charge a high fee because they're not true Lightning wallets but function as one, such as Muun.
If you used Wallet of Satoshi or Alby, you'd have no setup fee and have cheap transactions all of the time. But the caveat here is that they are custodial wallets.
Thank you. Wallet of Satoshi seems like the next simplest after Muun. I’ll try that.
Definitely try this. Your fees will drop by at least 100x :)
WoS is easy and convenient, sacrificing some security due to reliance on their node infrastructure. Phoenix enables more security with similar ease and convenience. Breez.technology is another self-custodied (thus more private & secure) LN application that ALSO integrates a retail POS feature and support for the Podcasting 2.0 v4v model.
Zeus is easy too, but requires connecting to a node (which can be outsourced for instance to the Lightning Tips bot wallet/node on Telegram), that exists on a scale ranging from fully outsourced, rented cloud nodes like Voltage, or fully self hosted on a Start9, Ministry of Nodes, DIY or other pre-built Rasberry Pi nodes.
You'll find a lot of these details on all these tools explained much more granularly by watching and studying the videos put out by nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8
Alby can be non-custodial if running a node and tying in through Zeus
Breez, Phoenix, Bitkit, Mutiny are true lightning wallets. You have a one time channel set-up fee
