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How to Build the Ultimate Bandaid Wallet

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Muun wallet has a unified balance, however it stores all funds on-chain and not on-lightning for a user. So every incoming payment is a splice-out.

Aqua wallet now is doing the same thing except storing funds on-Liquid-sidechain rather than on mainnet.

Aqua seems like the best choice for people wanting the easiest experience but not wanting to go custodial atm. What do you think about this recently launched wallet?

With the high fees recently, it's been hard to onboard brand new people to BTC. Say you owe someone $50 for dinner, well setting them up with a non-custodial wallet costs $20 for a lightning channel. They aren't likely to be too excited about that. Custodial wallets are banned in my country, and also I'm not interested in doing that. I did that before and certain services rugged (I mean went "bankrupt").

Aqua wallet, recently launched by Samson Mow's JAN3, seems like a game changer. It allows normal lightning send/receive like Muun wallet (which functions extremely reliably sans the fees), but the funds are stored as L-BTC on the Liquid sidechain.

Granted, if someone is interested in holding more BTC and diving into it further, they should obviously store money on mainnet (it has this feature as well). But for noobs as a first wallet, this seems to solve a lot of pain points.

Main complaint is that the lightning sends can be faster, it's ~10 sec, while normal Lightning on Pheonix wallet is ~1-2 sec.

Take a look: https://aquawallet.io/

Thoughts on Aqua wallet?

How they manipulated the price (from the SEC?) of Bitcoin in just 15 minutes

nando

If it was really for manipulation, they would have made a fake tweet about BTC ETF being declined, and collect on a short as the market is nuking. Seems a lot more obvious that would cause major vol and carnage

Flash Is Reinventing Caribbean Money with the Breez SDK

Does Jamaica have it's own currency? Lots of Caribbean islands are on the dollar, or the "Island Dollar" system (ie: 2 Barbados Dollars = 1 USD, fixed rate).

I believe in the Dutch Antilles it's 1.75 island dollars to 1 USD, also a fixed rate.