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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @ama 24 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: What is the best Bitcoin Lightning wallet? bitcoin
In my opinion Muun is the worse wallet to use for LN transactions, simply because it isn't a LN wallet, unless, of course what you need is to do a submarine transaction to move funds on-chain to off-chain, to the LN. It's not completely custodial, but you trust them with your funds for a little while to do the submarine transactions. It's also very expensive, compared to actual LN wallets. You can find plenty of horror stories about it here in SN.
Electrum and Phoenix are actual LN wallets. In Electrum you need to open your own channels whereas Phoenix handles them for you automatically. It's up to you what you prefer, but in both cases, unlike with Wallet of Satoshi, you need to understand LN channels, of course. I like that combo, and I have Electrum in both, computer and phones, and Phoenix and WoS in phones.
A few weeks ago I wrote a little example on how to get channels open in both, Electrum and Phoenix, in a single operation, getting inbound liquidity in a desktop wallet and a mobile wallet simultaneously, easily and for cheap. You might find it useful if you decide to use those two wallets. It'd work with other wallets instead of Electrum, too.
Thank you so much for the info. I am going to check out your example right now and see if I can figure it out.
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Cool! Check out the on chain fee you need to pay to open your channel and also the fee that Phoenix charges you to open the channel to you. I believe that's 1% of the amount you are receiving with a minimum of 3000 sats. I think it's very reasonable, but for small amounts might not work for some people, so it'd be better to do a larger first transaction to open the channel.
The idea behind it simple. You open a channel with one of you wallets, Electrum for example, and send some sats through it to the other wallet, Phoenix, which will open a channel to you (from their node) with a larger inbound capacity than the amount sent, and charge you a fee to do so.
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