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Wallet of Satoshi
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The world's simplest Bitcoin Lightning wallet. Download the app now on iPhone or Android.

Officially you can't do it yet - it's coming in a future update. unofficially...

hold up, just waiting on a shipment of battens from amazon

Replying to Avatar Joe Nakamoto

Fancy a laugh? 😂 🧡

I tried to give out Bitcoin to newbies on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Here’s the result! 🧡 🇱🇨

https://youtu.be/DBZn30Ytr7k

Thank you SO much to @walletofsatoshi for sponsoring the video, you da best CUSTODIAL lightning wallet for newbies.

If you like what I do, please ZAP. WoS kindly covered ALL my videographer fees. 😊

I don't make any money from this... But maybe one day I will!

Plus, you know, you get to enjoy second hand embarrassment.

Love, strength and sats to you all! 🇱🇨🇱🇨 🇱🇨🇱🇨

Joe

That was great! The new wos version should be a lot more reliable with displaying the green “payment received” screen, let us know how it goes ⚡️⚡️⚡️💜💜💜

Replying to Avatar allen

hot take: I get that custodial lightning is not remotely decentralized, sovereign, trustless, etc. - all that good shit …

… but is nobody else outrageously excited by how much of an improvement over fiat it is? not just in its own right but even explicitly in terms of decentralisation, sovereignty, and trustlessness?

it strikes me as a key vector of bitcoin driving jurisdictional arbitrage, for one. say some authoritarian regime cracks down on bitcoin (whatever that ends up meaning in practice, doesn’t really matter) and makes it politically risky to run a node, or manage liquidity, or be seen as “transmitting money”, or whatever. if there is a trustworthy custodial lightning provider *literally anywhere in the world* you can anonymously spin up the ability to receive payments in seconds. “anonymously” and “in seconds” are both groundbreaking advances if you have any familiarity whatsoever with fiat banking and payment rails.

if you think about it, you actually can’t get this with “real” lightning either. it’s not instant (to set up) and you need to know people who presumably trust you to some small extent to get to the point of workable liquidity and stay there (perhaps under-discussed, but if channel partners “don’t trust you”, they will close or never open, and you can’t use lightning at all. WhO’s TrUsTlEsS nOw HuH?!?)

so yes, this requires trust, but like, fuck me, so does everything in real life 😂 - being overly negative on this strikes me as a kind of core fallacy of appreciating open and decentralized systems: that it’s a spectrum, not a binary. how open and decentralized the foundation is represents the maximum openness and decentralisation of anything built on top, *not the minimum*!

moving away from completely closed and centralised does not necessitate the opposite, it opens up an entire range of new possibilities, all of which come with tradeoffs. but tradeoffs are relative to circumstances in real life, and in real life, selective trust is very much a thing because We LiVe In A sOcIeTy 🤪 - talking about tradeoffs in absolute terms as if the decision to accept them can be made entirely devoid of context is highly regarded. and this isn’t even to get into the rather obvious line of argument that if you want people to ever get to the extreme, having a spectrum to gradually move along is far more appealing than requiring them to jump in at the deep end. i.e. it’s also amazing for adoption.

in conclusion, don’t be highly regarded. support adoption. agree with my hot take. gm, pv 🤙

Glad you see it, it's hard to convey how tremendous this is. For those familiar with the existing closed banking system... where nobody has access except banks!

It's hard to believe we have already come this far in just over a decade to a global open access financial system. And built on sound money to boot!

Boggles the mind.

https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/disclosure

Yeah we don't charge anything for Lightning, neither sending nor receiving. Zap away! Any fees you see there occasionally will likely be extremely minimal, and are charged by other routing nodes, not ours. Our node really doesn't make much from routing fees from other people's payments either, it's not our focus.

We charge for on-chain transactions (swapping in and out of lightning to on-chain), and make some from the fiat conversions.

The reason we don't need to charge for Lightning: Lightning is the proper retail payment system we've been waiting for ever since we discovered Bitcoin wasn't really suitable for this purpose. It has genuinely brought down the cost of individual retail payments to the marginal cost of sending a bit of data across the internet (LOL) and the cost of having liquidity available, which becomes less with scale.

Some of us worked at banks and credit card companies and were disgusted at how much small business especially are placed at the mercy of payment providers. Visa and Mastercard fees are excessive, but there is limited competition to fix that, because you need a privileged licence to compete in that market. Lightning changes all that.

We want to bring Lightning to the world, and that is our first priority. ⚡

If you are enjoying ⚡Wallet of Satoshi - one way that you can really help us out:

Please write a review in your app store!

Even if you're not the kind of person that normally leaves reviews... it's an awesome way you can show your appreciation and help us reach more noobs. I find it annoying when apps bug you about this, but it really does make a big difference.

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We know you love data, and we like this zap trend!

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https://void.cat/d/YGYCFWRPgdbETRFBdVvZvA.webp

We recently completed a ground-up rebuild of our app but have retained the look and feel you know and love.

v2.1.2 is now out of the Beta testing phase and is LIVE on iOS App Store & Android Play Store, so feel free to update and enjoy.

⚡️🚀⚡️🔥⚡️💜

https://void.cat/d/WQYcGVgQS4zbXgHVZvXmMC.webp

Jack is zapping like a madman ⚡️⚡️⚡️💜💜💜

#[0]

Ok we've just upped the speed limit for consecutive zaps per person. ⚡⚡⚡

Honestly didn't think it was possible for you crazy nostriches to zap that fast...

https://void.cat/d/TKiTQoCYbaj34jQBvEWEK3.webp

We've just rolled out a fix for a problem where sometimes zaps wouldn't work.

Thanks to #[0] and others for reporting!

The problem was on our end, but only surfaced for users that had very long lists of relays set up (or one of those new 'filter' style relays, that also made the relay data longer).

Please give it a try again, and if you're still seeing problems anywhere, let us know!

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We're likely going to add an 'autopay' feature.

A configurable sats limit in WoS settings so that any invoices (or zaps) will be paid automatically without needing approval.

Beta update for Wallet of Satoshi has just dropped!

The biggest improvement in this version is:

⚡⚡⚡ FASTER ZAPS! ⚡⚡⚡

Please give it a test, this could be the last beta version before we go live for everyone.

https://void.cat/d/SYuhv4P3kXuVGUDqk6MVWQ.webp

A bit of ⚡Zap data so far from Wallet of Satoshi: Zaps per hour (incoming)

We have no way to count outgoing, I guess you could probably roughly double it. 💜💜💜

https://void.cat/d/EWWgUNnKML4rCy33UW6yzW.webp

My word plebs, it’s like an electrical storm, we feel the love!

But please save some sats to send to the nostr noobs when we invite them all (not yet!)