zeus VS specter-desktop

3) Last night at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, Zeus wallet announced imminent release of Olympus with embedded node on your phone

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

If you're scared, you can audit the codes yourself at the Zeus github page.

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

https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow

You can for example use it to run specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top for example, to use your hardware wallet with improved privacy or even mix them together to create multi-sig setups.

Also, the functioning of your hardware wallet isn't dependent on this corporations still existing. There is various free and open source software that lets you manage your hardware wallet, and even combine them to make multi-sig wallets (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) . This lets you access all information via your own Bitcoin node, no third party system required, fully decentralized.

Take a look at Specter Desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) , which is a web interface for Bitcoin Core that lets you use basically every hardware wallet directly with your node.

Specter Desktop v1.14.1 (Released: 08th December 2022) - https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases

Alternatively you can purchase multiple devices from different manufacturers and create a multisig wallet that requires multiple signatures from multiple devices. Wallet software like Specter-Desktop can help you with this. They also have a DIY signer https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-diy

What you can do is to use one or more of this hardware wallets with your own node and a software like specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top. This way you are completely self sufficient.

It is most likely an issue that is solved in the upcoming version of Specter; you might be interested in trying this prerelease, or wait for the official release: https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.13.1-pre1

Specter runs in Electrum, but you can technically set it up to be run through a web browser, as long as you're hosting the service yourself.

Specter Desktop v1.9.4 - Release page - Upgrade guide UIUX: Overhaul of UTXO list, handling of locked UTXOs and scrollbar added to tx-table web component; + various bug fixes, chores and docs. See release page for full notes.