Topic: The Lightning Network FAQ - page 5. (Read 33463 times)

It says that Blink is unavailable some countries app stores, including the US  
I like that they are supporting Stablesats, USD equivalent that is much better way of holding some kind of stablecoins but without having to deal with shitcoins.
So far I didn't try it but I might give it a go to see how it works, but if I understand correctly this is custodial LN wallet.

Speedloader syncs the wallet's channel database ("channel graph") on startup. This is important for payment pathfinding and will make sure you have an up-to-date database.

I would recommend Blink (formerly BItcoinBeachWallet) available for ios and android and app gallery  https://www.blink.sv/

I haven't, but from the GitHub description it looks basically identical to the rebalance plugin. You still need to manually specify input and output channels, for instance.
What's the benefit over rebalance?

rebalance.go:57 Run: ===================== ATTEMPT 1 =====================
 40516 2023-06-14T05:58:43.347Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: params.go:48 validateLiquidityParameters: validating liquidity parameters
 40517 2023-06-14T05:58:43.348Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: params.go:50 validateLiquidityParameters: refreshing in and out channels
 40518 2023-06-14T05:58:43.348Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: params.go:75 validateLiquidityParameters: liquidity parameters validated
 40519 2023-06-14T05:58:43.349Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: route.go:41 tryRoute: generating route
 40520 2023-06-14T05:58:43.354Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: route.go:19 getRoute: looking for a route from Boltz to SCP-096
 40521 2023-06-14T05:58:43.403Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: time.go:10 TimeTrack: rebalance.getRoute took 64.837ms
 40522 2023-06-14T05:58:43.407Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: route.go:53 tryRoute: Route from: Boltz to: SCP-096
 40523 2023-06-14T05:58:43.407Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Amount: 300000
 40524 2023-06-14T05:58:43.408Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Fee: 2267msat
 40525 2023-06-14T05:58:43.408Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Fee PPM: 7
 40526 2023-06-14T05:58:43.408Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Hops: 4
 40527 2023-06-14T05:58:43.408Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Hop  1:                           Crypt04n4rkMoV, fee:    0.000, ppm:     0, scid: 778301x567x0, delay: 408
 40528 2023-06-14T05:58:43.408Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Hop  2:                                    Boltz, fee:    0.301, ppm:     1, scid: 748535x568x1, delay: 328
 40529 2023-06-14T05:58:43.409Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Hop  3:                         marburg.ddns.net, fee:    0.166, ppm:     0, scid: 774975x2457x1, delay: 288
 40530 2023-06-14T05:58:43.409Z DEBUG   plugin-circular: Hop  4:                                  SCP-096, fee:    1.800, ppm:     6, scid: 711640x1428x1, delay: 144

Anyone using the plugin called Circular to rebalance channels in Core Lightning v23.0.5??? I think it might be broken after the API changes in Core Lightning.
Wanted to know if anyone can still use this plugin.

    Fixed crash (memory corruption!) in listtransactions (openingd: work harder to intuit OPT_SCID_ALIAS. #6304)
    Don't crash on gossip store deletion fail (gossipd: don't fail on gossip deletion #6297)
    Fix incompatibility with LND which prevented us opening private channels (openingd: work harder to intuit OPT_SCID_ALIAS. #6304)
    Fixed crash in dual-funding. (CI: restore dual-funding tests. #6273)

Regarding user-friendliness for LN, I just read the other day that Foundation Devices published a podcast episode with a Breez developer. I've yet to listen to it myself, but I'm interested to know what they talked about, since I'm obviously both a Passport and Breez user myself..

I like the idea and how simple it seems to be! The LN still needs a lot of work to become user friendly but these small steps are for sure in the right path! It seemed quite clean and simple the few examples in the video.

EP #9 – Making self-custodial Lightning easier w/ Ivan from Breez

If it’s seemed too daunting to use Lightning without sacrificing custody of your Bitcoin, what Breez is building might be just the solution you need. On this week’s episode we sit down with Ivan from Breez to talk about the future of self-custodial Lightning and how we can beat fiat at it’s own game.

That's a pretty sexy feature. What's up with that NFC transaction, never seen something like that for lightning before.
Does it immediatelly charge the amount or is there still confirmation required from the one sending the sats?

Wallet of Satoshi launches Lightning Point of Sale feature

Seems nice feature and very handy.
https://stacker.news/items/176409
https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi/status/1655451096117284867

Thanks for the input. Command line options (breez) sound good as a nice last resort. I just installed and don't get any connection, so it's neither allowing me to generate a lightning invoice, nor an on-chain address.
Especiall the latter seems very weird to me - the error notification says "Not able to obtain Bitcoin address from Breez-Server. Please check your Internet-connection". - Are they storing the keys online, or why would you need a connection to show an onchain public address?

Instead of the wallet do stuff on its own, you would be able to issue commands to close channels and specify the onchain address where you wanted your local balance "to land". I think this was what he meant!

Oh and on another note: I am not familiar with Lightning too much, how would developer commands protect you in a worst-case scenario?

I only know and tried these two. Working very well. What I like about Breez is that it does have 'developer commands', so it gives me the peace of mind that in a worst-case scenario, I could use regular old LND commands to (force) close any open channels and send myself the resulting on-chain funds.

Just to be clear, I have never actually needed it on any of these wallets, but it's still nice to have.

They offered a hosted / online Lightning wallet in their Bitcoin wallet app.

BlueWallet is discontinuing its service, so I was wondering which of the mentioned LN wallets in OP would be the best to move funds to:
- https://phoenix.acinq.co/
- https://breez.technology/

BlueWallet is discontinuing which service?