Because Blockstream Green uses multisig, with you having only 1 of the 2 keys, meaning that you can't simply just restore your wallet backup to other wallet software like Electrum. The backup pretty much only works on Blockstream Green. So when Blockstream Green closes down anytime soon for whatever reason(I completely doubt it, but still the possibility is there), you pretty much lose access to your funds completely.
This also results in another problem. Green force-closed my Lightning channel and sent my sats to a p2wsh address which doesn’t belong to me fully (it cannot be derived from my seed phrase, and the sats on it cannot be spent via another wallet software). In Green, I have to request to “sweep funds” from this address in order to receive them to my onchain balance. But this operation always fails.
Blockstream knows about the issue:
- a user
reported the problem in their Telegram chat more than a month ago;
- another user
reported the problem in their Github almost two months ago.
But the problem still persists.
Be extremely careful with this wallet.