Good morning! What an exciting day. Bitcoin Miami looks like a ton of fun. I'm seriously considering going to Pacific Bitcoin this year now.
Also I saw a number <250 on the scale for the first time in years this morning! LFG! Plus you all get to see my sexy feet 😆 #footstr #plebchain

WTF! Must be only on the LND version of something. Sorry! I'm out of ideas.
Now we're cooking!
This guy has been here since December and only just received his first zap, and he posts quite a bit too! #zap
I don't think blue wallet itself can become compromised unless blue wallet pushes an update through the app store themselves. If they did and I was given fake addresses in the app then no amount of checking the address, whether server or on a screen, is going to catch it.
In RTL of you look at your channel list I think there's something on the right side of every channel that you can click on and it gives you the option to rebalance there.
If you're talking about circular rebalance you can pick outgoing and incoming channels with tools like thunderhub and ride the lightning. I'm not sure if those are available in CLN though, I only used LND.
If you're talking about picking an outgoing channel to pay someone else I'm not sure you can pick, but you can query a route before you pay using ride the lightning.
I was using a ledger, but I just moved my coins off that to my phone's bluewallet. I compare the address on the screen to the address in the bluewallet app. I have a passport on the way, which actually bypasses the entire clipboard issue by allowing you to scan QR codes.
I personally like the screen on the HW because I can verify an address there, offline, and sign it before sending it back online to post. Once the correct address is signed there is no way to change it, so I know the transaction is correct. Without the screen I won't be able to check it until it's back on a device with a screen that is probably online.
I think trusting a third party server is a joke. It's not hard to verify an address from the source and avoid any clipboard malware.
I read the article. Their solution to no screen is to trust a bitkey server. No thanks.
Our final post in this week's security series is a big one: why screens aren't all they're cracked up to be, why we think they keep people from self-custody, & how Bitkey can help without a screen on the hardware. Take a read, let us know what you think: https://bitkey.build/screens-are-not-a-panacea/
I'm sorry but their solution to trust a Bitkey server is laughable.
Someone with Bitcoin on an exchange doesn't have a Bitcoin stack. They have an IOU stack.
I've probably spent about 1% on devices, node, and seed storage.
That's a lot! Ty for the response.
You're welcome!
You know I'm not sure what happens if you send a larger amount than your existing channel. That might work too, but I think Phoenix will want to charge a fee for a new channel.
In my example I have a 1.8m sat channel and I spent 1m sats, so I have the capacity to send myself 1m sats with strike to refill the existing channel. It only cost the strike lightning fee:


I'm not sure how Phoenix handles multiple channels.
Another option would be to refill your channel as you spend it you aren't making any purchases bigger than your channel size. What I do is pay an LN invoice from my Phoenix wallet using my USD on Strike. Then I don't have to deal with an on chain transaction or pay a fee for a new channel to Phoenix.

