My reply to people who tell me to “just use lightning”

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  • Hello, here's 3000 satoshis: https://ln.cash/aHYUKGoiiREBEM19eUr4CG (first come first serve). You can get Breez wallet (other supported), click on the link, withdraw in couple seconds and use the money right away. E.g. to donate to https://strike.me/racing.

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  • The chart has average of fees. Since exchanges and many people are greatly overpaying what is needed to get into block you can get such high numbers. In the last couple days if you pay fee 5 cents (1 sat/vByte), your transaction would be included in the next mined block, since the mempool has been empty. See http://mempool.space/

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    Lightning Loop: A Non-Custodial Off/On Chain Bridge (by lightninglabs)

  • No, you can also loop it out (https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop). It can use batched transactions to save on fees.

  • lnd

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    Discontinued Zap Wallet - Cross platform Lightning Network wallet focused on user experience and ease of use ⚡️

  • There are various wallets for the desktop, but I never used one. I think Electrum has Lightning intergration, there is also Zap (https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop) I use a https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz with Zap mobile wallet connecting to the node for payments (there is an app and desktop version).

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    Get your own Bitcoin & Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD

  • There are various wallets for the desktop, but I never used one. I think Electrum has Lightning intergration, there is also Zap (https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop) I use a https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz with Zap mobile wallet connecting to the node for payments (there is an app and desktop version).

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