zeus VS joinmarket-clientserver

Your cold wallet is your savings account. You can top up a hot wallet/lightning spending wallet (your checking account) as and when you need. Recommended lightning wallets, Alby, Breez, Phoenix, Zeus and Muun wallet.

The wallet is Zeus

Zeus, which works with or without LndHub.

Zeus v0.6.6 (Released: 26th August 2022) - https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases

Since Zap halted development I switched to Zues. It's a worthy replacement: https://zeusln.app/

If you're looking to build a wallet that connects back to a user's own node, then Zeus LN wallet is the favorite around here. They're open source, take a look. Source: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus

Install either Zeus or BlueWallet;

Zeus v0.6.2 and v0.6.4 - Release page - Upgrade guide Tighten up login process; Unconfirmed balance hot fix; New unit toggle on Send and Receive views; Settings > Security: Allow users to choose whether to scramble PIN pad; LND: let users spend unconfirmed UTXOs; some bug fixes

Some great lightning wallets: If you just want the simplest non-custodial one, go with Muun. If you want the simplest custodial one, go with Wallet of Satoshi. If you want to be able to customize things a bit and maybe even use your own lightning node you can check out Breeze, BlueWallet, Phoenix. If you want a wallet with all the latest state of the art stuff implemented into it, check out Blixt. If you want to have full control of your lightning node, checkout Zeus.

Zeus v0.6.2 - Release page - Upgrade guide Tighten up login process; Unconfirmed balance hot fix

This is a bitcoin service delivered in a low trust manner where the bitcoin user need only utilize software they run and control for the services and can protect themselves from malicious third parties with very little trust or consequence from peers. This is the gold standard of Bitcoin service. Examples include lightning routing, lightning liquidity marketplaces like pool, coinjoins like joinmarket, coinswaps, submarine swaps like loop and others.

JoinMarket v0.9.6 - Release page - Upgrade guide New p2p onion messaging channels, with directory nodes; Change to fidelity bond parameter: the 'exponent'; RPC-API updates; Wallet improvements/fixes; + others updates. See full release notes

Anonymous usage of Bitcoin is possible with Wasabi Wallet and JoinMarket. What's missing is:

JoinMarket v0.9.5 - Release page - Upgrade guide fixes and improvements to the RPC API; upgrade to Bitcoin backend, now supports bech32m, i.e. sending to taproot (segwit v1) addresses (full release notes)

It uses multiple redundant IRC servers. There is also WIP PR for a native protocol over Tor. https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/pull/1182

Version 0.0.3 is the first "public" version of the JoinMarket Web UI. The goal of this project is to bring JoinMarket to a wider audience by providing an interface that is—hopefully—both appealing and easy to use.