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Aqua Wallet by Jan3 to go Open Source in as Little as a Week

440 sats \ 20 comments \ @b33tle 15 Jan bitcoin freebie

Email communication with Jan3

Gats: You guys seem to have gone quiet since the 3rd. The community is hoping that Sam holds up his promise to make this project open source so we can verify that we can safely use this wallet. I for one am rooting for you all, maybe hopelessly optimistic, but would love any updates you all have.

Raul Velasquez: Hi Gats, AQUA will be fully open source in about a week or so, stay tuned to our socials and JAN3's for the announcement. Thank you for your support.

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40 sats \ 13 replies \ @GregAsks 15 Jan

You mean shitcoin wallet?

50 sats \ 6 replies \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious 15 Jan

No, L-BTC and Lightning, both forms of Bitcoin. Sats are not shitcoins, regardless of their form.

22 sats \ 1 reply \ @aljaz 15 Jan

L-BTC is not a form of bitcoin, its pegged to bitcoin but you need permission to peg out. You can't possibly compare it to lightning.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @GregAsks 15 Jan

True 👍

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar 15 Jan

I would have a hard time being convinced that L-BTC is Bitcoin.

The fact that you can buy and sell Liquid with Bitcoin doesn't make it Bitcoin. By those standards, Ethereum is Bitcoin because you can easily peg in and out of it. Probably more easily than with Liquid.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx2 15 Jan freebie

By those standards, Ethereum is Bitcoin

No.

L-BTC only comes into existence when it is backed by BTC. There is no independent supply of L-BTC aside from that.

Its fundamentally no different than a fedimint from a practical perspective

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @GregAsks 15 Jan

No thanks for worthless shitcoin i stick with real bitcoin. Cry harder 😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx2 15 Jan

Odds are you are a bitcoin larper....and sadly when it comes to Lightning we are all bitcoin larpers.

We pretend to care about the fundamentals of bitcoin, but 99% of us only use it in a permission-ed and custodial way (Alby, Wallet of Satoshi, Phoenix, etc)

AQUA - while not as good a true self-sovereignty - is better than most of the single custodian solutions.

I mean if you think fedimints are a good idea, there is no philosophical differences to L-BTC.

31 sats \ 5 replies \ @b33tle OP 15 Jan

Cute, especially coming from a guy who uses alby custodial.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @GregAsks 15 Jan

At least they don't pretend to be my friend who give me worthless token...

14 sats \ 3 replies \ @b33tle OP 15 Jan

..I'm guessing you aren't up to speed with alby's affiliations yet. Well...this is awkward 😅.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @GregAsks 15 Jan

I also don't trust alby with my satoshi. But they don't force me to use shitcoin like L-BTC or Tether or other shitcoin in the future...

I will always choose bitcoin only wallet. 💪

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 15 Jan

That's ok, but others may find L-BTC and USDT on Liquid useful.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @GregAsks 15 Jan

Ok fair, this fake bitcoin are the same usefulness category like this token:

https://coinpaprika.com/coin/shit-i-will-poop-it-nft/

But still better than ETF, always something 😂👍

12 sats \ 2 replies \ @ThereIsNoSecondBest 15 Jan

Fantastic news! I was waiting for this before switching.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx2 15 Jan

Yep, its a weird history.

I've long used Green and while Samson was employed at Blockstream there was also AQUA (this is like 2019?) which was available on their website and had source code available.

Then when Samson left Blockstream, AQUA seemed to disappear and suddenly Green got better features (LN with splicing, etc).

Now AQUA has appeared again with L-BTC + LN + splicing. Ha.....

I'm not exactly sure why they don't just combine efforts. What is the point of these dualing wallets from closed aligned people?

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @b33tle OP 15 Jan

From what I understand, AQUA is primarily catered to Latin America and getting the unbanked a viable option. Blockstream probably understood the risk of getting too close to altcoins with their maxi fanbase, but AQUA has opportunity to meet people in latin america where they're at and help them in their current circumstance.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 15 Jan

Have seen this and am very curious the space needs moar innovation will be watching closely to see what comes of this wallet so far it does loom impressive though

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bzzzt 15 Jan

Thats positive 🤙

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eobard 15 Jan

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