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.

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

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? 

