I’ve been playing with it last few weeks too. Love it. One of the easiest wallets to off ramp sats when they build up.
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It’s great for receiving sats via LN when you don’t have a channel also. If it had coin control it would be such a beast software wallet.
Yeah the whole liquidity mange y and channel BS has to go away or be invisible. I really liked Phoenix wallet, but the liquidity piece was a massive PITA. All the Bitcoin apps need a serious dumbing down to be more broadly adopted. But that does not mean less security, just much better UX. Developers should not be doing UI/UX work.
I’ll add this thought—why not both? A wallet with a simple version for those who just want the pay-and-receive functionality, and a “coordinator” version who manages channels and liquidity as a service for the simplified wallet.
You open the app and you can choose your version, and a “store” is available for coordinators or people seeking liquidity coordinators.
Managing channels is therapeutic, I say.
1,000% the problem is it seems to be either or, or a blend of the two that forces users to be slightly in the middle. I’m just saying keep it simple. A lot of the complexity needs to be made invisible to the user - unless they want to fiddle with it.
BlueWallet used to be like that until it became too regulatory risky for them to be the LSP, so they removed themselves. You are right in that trying to be everything leaves every user relatively dissatisfied. The current version of BW still has lightning functionality but it’s only for the advanced users.
I am just advocating have the wall between the two (simple vs. coordinator) an up-front decision point for users, keeping the wall between the two, but making the link through servicing each other a benefit to attract all users to the app.