Abstract
This directory indexes various kind of Bitcoin-related services mainly related to usability & privacy. This directory also includes miscellaneous projects related to Lightning, Cashu, Fedimint and NOSTR.
Variants
| Variant | Structure | Coin |
|---|---|---|
| ⛓️ Onchain | Timechain | UTXO |
| ⚡ Lightning | Payment Channels | Sats |
| 🥜 Cashu | E-Cash | eSats |
| 🌿 Fedimint | Federated E-Cash | fm-sats |
| 🪐 Mercury | Statechains | Statecoins |
| 🚢 Ark | Joinpools | VTXO |
⛓️ Privacy Features
| Software | |
|---|---|
| BIP-47 PayNym | |
| BIP-78 PayJoin | Blue, JoinMarket, Mutiny, Wasabi |
| JoinMarket | Jam, JoinMarket |
| Ricochet | |
| Stonewall | |
| StonewallX2 | |
| Stowaway | |
| Whirlpool |
⛓️ Spending-related Services
| Software | Services | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Electrum | Assisted Multisig | . |
| Keeper | Assisted Multisig | . |
| Liana | Timelock Assisted Multisig | . |
| Nunchuk | Assisted Multisig | . |
| Revault | Assisted Spending Condition | . |
⚡ Internal Liquidity Providers
| Software | LSP | Liquidity Cost1 | Channel capacity | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blitz | . | 2.5k ~ 0.4% | ? | ? |
| Blixt | . | 0 | 400k | ? |
| Breez | . | ? ~ 0.4% | + 50k | ? |
| Green | . | 10k ~ 16k | ≥ 20k | 4M |
| Mutiny | . | 1.05k ~ 3k | ≥ 100k | ? |
| Phoenix2 | . | 1k + 1% | User-Funded | ? |
| . | 1k ~ 100k | ≥ 100k | 10M | |
| Zeus | . | 10k ~ 50k | + 100k | 5M/channel |
⚡ Public Liquidity Providers
| LSP | Liquidity Cost | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Amboss Hydro (?) | ? + 1% | ? |
| LNBig | 12k ~ 241k | 200k ~ 100M |
| Blocktank | 12.8k ~ 14.1k | 1M ~ $990 equivalent |
| Africa Free Routing | 35k sats ~ ? | 1M ~ ? |
⚡ Liquidity Marketplaces
| Marketplace |
|---|
| Amboss Magma |
| Liquidity Ads |
| LN+ Pool |
| LN+ Swaps |
| LnRouter |
| Loop |
⚡ Static Payment Identifier
| Software | Receiver Fee | Mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Blixt | 0 | Keysend |
| 0 | Lightning Box | |
| Mutiny | 16k/month | Hermes |
| 0 | Hermes | |
| Zeus | 0 | Keysend |
| Software | Receiver Fee | Amount | Mechanism |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeus3 | 10% | < 21 sats | Zaplocker |
| 5% | < 101 sats | Zaplocker | |
| 2.5% | ≥ 101 sats | Zaplocker |
| Mechanism | Software |
|---|---|
| Cashu Address | Minibits & npub.cash |
| Custodial Lightning Address | Alby, Blink, Fountain, Lifpay |
| LNMarkets, Machankura | |
| Stacker News, Vipsats, WoS | |
| NIP-05 | 😶🌫️ |
⚡ Invoice Wrapping
| Software | Fee | Wrapper |
|---|---|---|
| Mutiny | ? | Voltage Flow 2.0 |
| Zeus3 | 2 sats | OLYMPUS |
🥜 Mints
| Mints | Mints URL |
|---|---|
| BOBSpace | . |
| Minibits | https://mint.minibits.cash/Bitcoin |
| Public Test Mint | https://8333.space:3338 |
🥜 Multimints Swap
| Software |
|---|
| Cashu.me |
| eNuts |
| Nutstash |
🌿 Lightning Gateway Providers
| LGP | Invitation Code |
|---|---|
| Bitcoin Principles | . |
| freedom one | . |
⛓️⚡🥜🌿🦩 Miscellaneous
| Functionality | |
|---|---|
| F-Droid | Sideload Source |
| GitHub | Sideload Source |
| Obtainium | Sideload Source |
| Zap Store | Sideload Source |
| BIP39 Tool | ⛓️ Address Calculator |
| BIP39 Colors | BIP39 Converter |
| Coinjoins.org | ⛓️ CoinJoin Adoption Tracker |
| Mempool | ⛓️ & ⚡ Explorer |
| BitcoinFeesAlertBot | ⛓️ Feerate Notifier |
| CheeseBot | ⛓️ Feerate Notifier |
| Ntfy.sh | ⛓️ Feerate Notifier |
| Txfess Watch | ⛓️ Feerate Notifier |
| Cryptography Toolkit | ⛓️ & ⚡ crypto stuffs |
| Payjoin.org | ⛓️ PayJoin Adoption Tracker |
| BitcoinTalk post | ⛓️ Taproot Adoption Tracker |
| when taproot? | ⛓️ Taproot Adoption Tracker |
| Bitcoin Optech Calculator | ⛓️ Tx Size Calculator |
| Bitcoin Transaction Size Calculator | ⛓️ Tx Size Calculator |
| AcceptLN | ⚡ Address Converter |
| Lightning Box | ⚡ Address Server |
| Zaplocker | ⚡ Address Server |
| Chantools | ⚡ Channel Recovery Tool |
| 1ML | ⚡ Network Explorer |
| Lightning Network+ | ⚡ Explorer |
| LnRouter | ⚡ Explorer |
| SparkSeer | ⚡ Explorer |
| Bolt11.org | ⚡ LNURL Decoder |
| Invoice Detective | ⚡ LNURL Decoder |
| Lightning Decoder | ⚡ LNURL Decoder |
| lndecode | ⚡ LNURL Decoder |
| Awesome Cashu 🥜✨ | List of awesome 🥜 things |
| Bitcoin Mints | 🥜 Mint & 🌿 LGP Index |
| Awesome Fedimint😎 | List of awesome 🌿 things |
| Hermes | 🌿 Address Server |
| awesome-nostr | List of awesome 🦩 things |
| Spring | 🦩 Browser |
| Nostr.band | 🦩 Indexer |
| NOSTR Army Knife | 🦩 Miscellaneous |
| nsecBunker | 🦩 nsec Remote Control |
Footnotes
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Chain fees (that triggers channel opening & LSP compensation) are excluded from LSP fee calculation. ↩
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ACINQ charges 1k sats fee on the first channel opening. ↩
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Zaplocker service includes non-custodial Lightning address, async payments and invoice wrapping. ↩ ↩