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muun has its place, but not for zaps.

Wallet of Satoshi is the simplest for receiving zaps, Zebedee works well too but its more than just a custodial lightning wallet so it adds layers of complexity.

Eventually we should all be moving to non-custodial lightning wallets but they are overly complicated for normies to set that up for zaps.

In the meantime don't keep too many funds on the custodians , and its simple enough on a mobile device to occasionally move WoS sats over to something like Phoenix wallet.
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The Original Genuine Garage Door (★★★☆☆) 𝕏 2y ago

I’m mostly zapping others so yeah muun has shown to be a major drawback the last 2 days. I’ve read that Phoenix is a lightning node on your phone. Their fees seem relatively straightforward except for their “on-the-fly channel creation” fee. I’d hope the wallet notifies you when this happens but muun doesn’t stop and notify you of fees when you zap on nostr so I’ll probably have to play with it to see what happens. Interesting. Thank you.

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Bitcoin Blobfish 2y ago

I usually zap with Phoenix but I receive zaps with Zebedee.

the fees are for setting up channels which the non custodial wallets need to do. You can turn off on the fly channel creation but then some payments might fail. These are some of the "pain points" or bad UX of the non-custodial wallets. There is a lot more to know and a lot more to do and cost, but this comes at increased sovereignty.

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The Original Genuine Garage Door (★★★☆☆) 𝕏 2y ago

I tried sending 10,000 sats to my Phoenix wallet (from my muun) to start the Phoenix wallet and the fee was 140,000 sats (more than I even had in the muun). Unfortunately, I think the muun would have sent the funds (if I had them) without stopping to make sure I was ok with the fees.