I don’t know what their plans are, except to say they didn’t have the budget to build a scalable Lightning service provider last year, and they wanted others to step up and offer one. I don’t see it as a major problem, since BlueWallet is great at what it offers for on-chain features, and Lightning as an option for anyone who has 5 minutes to read a guide on how to connect it.
Yep, I totally respect the decision to discontinue the custodial model. It’s still my go to recommendation for on-chain… it’s great for beginner and advanced users, and it works on all platforms.
But not having out of the box Lightning makes recommending and onboarding more complicated
It’s an opportunity to educate. You can do all of the same things BlueWallet offers on Lightning with Zeus and also get an instant LND embedded node on setup. The difference, of course, being that self-custodial Lightning requires an initial deposit of funds into a channel before it will work.
Meh… most ppl don’t want to learn all this shit on day 0.
If the use case is stacking/hodling, I still recommend Blue. If it’s having fun with zaps and LN, I usually recommend Phoenix.
But Phoenix can’t receive zaps and you still have the same setup obstacles of having to make a large initial deposit.
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