Lightning.  Although it seems that Phoenix might have opened a channel for me, which sounds like it might require an on-chain tx?

I moved some lightning BTC couple days ago and wanted to start using a self-custodian wallet so I decided to use Phoenix but I had some pretty major issues.

I started by sending a few test sats and it worked great.  I then sent about $500 USD of sats to the wallet and the Phoenix wallet said it went through (although it cost about $5 usd).  After a few hours I noticed that the sats weren't showing up on the main page of the app.  About 2 days later and now the sats are showing up correctly and I can see a new channel that was opened with a capacity high enough for the transaction.

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I moved some lightning BTC couple days ago and wanted to start using a self-custodian wallet so I decided to use Phoenix but I had some pretty major issues.

I started by sending a few test sats and it worked great.  I then sent about $500 USD of sats to the wallet and the Phoenix wallet said it went through (although it cost about $5 usd).  After a few hours I noticed that the sats weren't showing up on the main page of the app.  About 2 days later and now the sats are showing up correctly and I can see a new channel that was opened with a capacity high enough for the transaction.

So questions for yall:

* Any idea why the transaction took so long to actually show up?
* It's concerning that Phoenix said that the transaction was finished yet I couldn't spend those sats; and the sats seemed to be in limbo for a few days.  Should I look at an alternative to Phoenix?