Great works Hampus, middle-ground for non-custodial mobile users. Available for next version of Blixt?
⚡️ hampus@blixtwallet.com
This Lightning Address is special.
When you pay to it, my Lightning Box solution will forward the request to the phone, where Blixt Wallet respond with an invoice.
This is the first time a self-custodial LN wallet supports Lightning Address.
This is part of my on-going work to support receiving via Lightning Address for mobile self-custodial wallets.
https://github.com/hsjoberg/lightning-box
Android supports foreground services, meaning that Blixt Wallet can stay online all the time to answer incoming requests (no effect on battery).
Though the normal mode of operation for Lightning Box is that it'll take the payment on behalf of the user and then next time the user opens wallet, it will auto-withdraw from the Box, thanks to LNURL-withdraw.
But if the wallet is online already, it can just forward the request.
Discussion
Thank you! Yes, I do the trade-offs being made are sound.
Not next version, but soonish. Are you in in our Telegram group @BlixtWallet?
I will start an internal alpha eventually with people that are interested to try it out.
Great to hear that. Yeah, previously i'm used to be in Blixt Telegram Group. But, somehow i got kicked out. Maybe, because i don't use any profile picture so it seems like a bot account. 😅
Thank you, i will try to join again later
Haha yeah we have some harsh ban waves because of the amount of bots.
Please tell me your handle here or in DMs and I’ll unban you.