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🚢 Just launched Buoy — a free, independent Bitcoin-only tool to compare wallets, exchanges, merchant tools, and more by country.
Inspired by Jeff Booth’s call to spend more of our time on Bitcoin, I put that advice into action.
Even in Bitcoin-only, there are so many services it’s hard to know how they differ. Buoy makes that clear and saves you time.
This is an early MVP — still missing services and features — so your feedback now will shape what comes next.
⚡ I’ll zap the first 10 constructive feedback comments. 🔗 https://buoybitcoin.com/stacker
189 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 3h
A lot of cool info here!
One note is to consider adding Bisq to the Buy Bitcoin> without KYC options.
Also, when going through the flow after answering questions, the user is presented relevant options, but it's unclear what tapping the circle in the upper right corner of each card does. It turns orange, but what does it do?
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Hey Scoresby, thanks for leaving feedback! I will add Bisq this weekend.
Good point on tapping the circle, perhaps i should clarify it, especially if you only tap it once nothing happens. However, if you tap two different services, the compare button should turn orange :)
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I probably should have figured that out...
...but the compare button is really cool! Great work!
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I've added Bisq to the site! Let me know if anything is missing or incorrect, I will adjust it.
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Took a quick look and noticed there’s no dark mode! Props on the project though, nice work!
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It now has dark mode 0xbitcoiner! I will tweak it a bit more because some elements could have better visibility.
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You know what, i'm going to implement Dark mode right now
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Thanks for checking it out. Dark mode is on the "to do" list.
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117 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 3h
Wrong! Bitcoin is Lightning and Lightning is Bitcoin. By presenting as 2 separate things you are misleading noobs into believing there are 2 separate things. And are NOT.
And btw... Muun and Aqua are NOT LN options. Are fake.
And Lightspark? Are you fucking kidding? Lightspark is the enemy of Bitcoin!
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To my knowledge, Lightning is an L2 layer on top of Bitcoin to facilitate easy transactions. Sending native Bitcoin on Lightning and vice versa won't work, that's why the distinction.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 2h
Sending native Bitcoin on Lightning
LOL you have so much to learn about Bitcoin... Please read what is a HTLC and submarine swaps. LN is THE payment network for Bitcoin. Onchain is THE final settlement.
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Oh I definitely have a lot to learn about Bitcoin! I will read about HTLC and submarine swaps.
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Good site but odd name
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Thank you BlokchainB! The name Buoy is meant to refer to the navigational wayfinding platform that it is, just like Bitcoin is in a sea of money printing. Hence the logo that resembles a chain of buoy's but turned sideways looks like an abstract Bitcoin symbol.
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Ahh Okay. I was lost
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @NovaRift 2h
You need to remove Muun because they pretend to be lightning but use submarine swaps. A lot of people said they lost their funds, fees are way too high, etc. Have you used it yourself?Also add RoboSats as well: https://learn.robosats.org/
A simple and private way to exchange bitcoin for national currencies.
They even have the app available on Zapstore and F-Droid.
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Thanks for your feedback NovaRift.
I thought Muun had an established reputation? I've downloaded it but haven't used it much. RoboSats will be added this weekend as well.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift 2h
I think noobs fell for it. The wallet works, but I've seen experienced bitcoiners on forums like Reddit and here saying to just move away from it and secure your funds. Even if you wish to add Muun as a choice, please do mention that they're not lightning but use submarine swaps. I'm an Android user and there are a lot of well maintained Bitcoin apps on Zapstore and F-Droid all of them are open source, so you should take a look there as well.
Read this guide from Darthcoin about LN wallets Choose wisely your LN wallet you want to use
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I will read up on it, thanks.
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TL;DR: Buoy helps you discover & compare Bitcoin-only services by country.
▶ Watch the 60s demo inline here (plays on SN): https://buoybitcoin.com/video/buoy-demo.mp4?sn=1
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