zap-iOS VS mempool

Zap, developed by the guy behind Strike (Note that the iOS version is discontinued and has a security flaw).

Zap Mobile iOS v0.5.1-3 beta (Released: 10th February 2020) - https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-iOS/releases

https://zaphq.io/ or electrum will fit your needs although electrums UX is a little trickier to use

Okay if custody of your own coins is priority for you, and you don't want to run a node straight away, I guess my recommendation is Zap Desktop. You can also get it from its github page. Basically it's running an lnd node in the background, but it presents a nice GUI as a front end.

It does not require KYC and is compatible with iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. Web: https://zaphq.io

https://zaphq.io/ makes it easy to accept Lightning Network from friends and fam.

A prize of 21,000 satoshis will be paid to the winner. This is real bitcoin. You will need a Lightning Wallet such as https://zaphq.io/ to receive

That's about 50$? I don't blame them https://mempool.space/

get some theory of mind. you are a person who is willing to pay onchain fees to use your trezor or open a channel. there are people in the world who are not willing to pay these fees and they probably outnumber you. and the plan has been spelled out in plain english a million times. the fees are supposed to go up by design. this means that most people will not self-custody, whether it is legal or not, and even if they would like to.

I’m not an expert so someone smarter than me can clarify, but the high/priority rate is the going rate (estimate) to get confirmed on the next block. Medium is the average rate for those transactions to be confirmed next. You can see current and historical rates at mempool.space.

The current fee to get into next block is about 40 sats/vB.

Check mempool.space for a better idea of how big a fee you need to offer to get into the next block.

The mempool is a bit crowed now. A few weeks ago it was only around 5 - 10 cents, and now it is between 3 and 13 dollars. (yesterday even 25 dollar) If you have a lot of UTXO's it can be very expensive to consolidate them all. In that case I would wait till the mempool is less crowed for lower transaction fees. it is important to understand that whirlpool or wasabi wallet will take many UTXO's (transaction fees) to mix your coins and maybe in the future exchanges don't want to touch your mixed coins. I mixed all my KYC coins as I'm not planning to exchange my bitcoin for fiat via a exchange in the future.