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I’m very happy to announce Blixt Wallet 0.6.8! It contains a new feature called speedloader by @kubernetes, which syncs LN channel db on app startup, leading to robust payment pathfinding. We want to thank Breez, which this work is derived from ⚡️

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Release 0.6.8 · hsjoberg/blixt-wallet

Blixt Wallet v0.6.8 is here and we have an important new feature called Speedloader! Speedloader syncs the wallet's channel database ("channel grap...

Speedloader loads the channel database file on app startup. On Android, the channel database file that speedloader uses is automatically cached by a background sync job every 24h. On iOS & macOS, the file is also downloaded on startup, leading to slightly longer startup times.

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- Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 has better support for hodl invoices. On-going payments now show up as "pending" in the transaction log before they are eventually settled or cancelled. This should result in a better experience when using services like RoboSats. - Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 introduces 0-conf channel support! Add pubkeys for nodes you would like to accept 0-conf channels from.

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Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 introduces 0-conf channel support! Add pubkeys for nodes you would like to accept 0-conf channels from.

- Speedloader is open-source and can be used with a normal lnd instance.

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GitHub - djkazic/speedloader: speedloader is a gossip syncer for LND on mobile

speedloader is a gossip syncer for LND on mobile. Contribute to djkazic/speedloader development by creating an account on GitHub.

Primer is used for generating the channel db file.

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GitHub - djkazic/primer

Contribute to djkazic/primer development by creating an account on GitHub.

In a future Blixt Wallet version, we'll add the ability to choose endpoint for downloading the channel db file. - Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 includes a crash fix for certain iPhone devices. Known affected devices are: iPhone 5/5s/6/6s/7/X/XR. If you have experienced issues in the past, please give a fresh installation of Blixt Wallet a try. 🪄 - Happy Blixting everyone! 🟡

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Yet another centralized service (Lightspark) being a menace to the network by doing evil probing is not fixing Lightning. In order to promote self-custody, we need tools to improve reliability for self-custodial wallets: - Native probing (BOLT14) - Blinded paths - Stuckless payments - Async payments

Blixt Wallet and Blixt Wallet Testnet have been reinstated to the Goople Play Store. Link to Blixt Wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blixtwallet Link to Blixt Wallet Testnet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blixtwallet.testnet Happy Blixting! 🟡

Our appeal for the suspension of Blixt Wallet and Blixt Wallet Testnet on Google Play has been accepted. The apps are currently under review. We expect them to be back soon! The suspension was due to app similarities, but we've clarified that Blixt Testnet is for testing only. As always, you can download the APK directly from our releases page on GitHub:

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In order to stay up-to-date with releases, we recommend you to use the tool Obtainium:

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GitHub - ImranR98/Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Get Android app updates straight from the source. Contribute to ImranR98/Obtainium development by creating an account on GitHub.

Read more about this in DarthCoin's article:

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Blixt Wallet and Blixt Wallet Testnet have been suspended from the Google Play Store. We are working with Google on figuring out why. In the meantime, you can download the wallet APK on GitHub.

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My email is getting too many support inquiries for Blixt Wallet. I cannot keep up. If you need immediate help, please join our Telegram chat group. We are a strong and helpful community.

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A good rule of thumb is DON’T BREAK USER SPACE. This is something Linus Torvalds constantly repeats regarding the Linux kernel development.

⚡️ hampus@blixtwallet.com This Lightning Address is special. When you pay to it, my Lightning Box solution will forward the request to the phone, where Blixt Wallet respond with an invoice. This is the first time a self-custodial LN wallet supports Lightning Address. This is part of my on-going work to support receiving via Lightning Address for mobile self-custodial wallets.

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GitHub - hsjoberg/lightning-box: A trust-minimized payment inbox for Lightning Addresses

A trust-minimized payment inbox for Lightning Addresses - hsjoberg/lightning-box

Android supports foreground services, meaning that Blixt Wallet can stay online all the time to answer incoming requests (no effect on battery). Though the normal mode of operation for Lightning Box is that it'll take the payment on behalf of the user and then next time the user opens wallet, it will auto-withdraw from the Box, thanks to LNURL-withdraw. But if the wallet is online already, it can just forward the request.

When Satoshi first released Bitcoin, he was out to fix the Byzantime Generals Problem and he did that by PoW and a public ledger (the blockchain). But he put out an imperfect protocol. It's not practically possible to fix everything all at once. The first comment about Bitcoin by another person was about its problematic relationship with scaling. Therefore the idea that Bitcoin is perfect “just the way it is” is a flawed concept. We should strive to improve bitcoin by adding technology that helps for scaling, privacy and other things. Bitcoin is not perfect.

In the end, all scaling to the Bitcoin mainchain has to come down to "put multiple people on the same UTXO". This is how we achieve mass scaling. My favorite solution for this is Drivechains BIP300/301 + an interoperable Lightning Network. What is your favorite solution?

Yippee! Blixt Wallet v0.6.4 has been released. 🟡 Get it while it's hot on Google Play Store and TestFlight. It's a smaller release with some good fixes, while we're working on the special v0.6.9-420 release, coming soon. 😎

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Release v0.6.4 · hsjoberg/blixt-wallet

Added the ability to restore with passphrase (25th word) Add the ability to change language on the welcome screen Fixed notifications not working o...

I'm softening up a bit about Ordinals and Inscriptions. I think it's good that we're beating Ethereum and the rest of the shitcoins at their own game. Now these people are flocking en masse to Twitter Spaces about Ordinals and are super-excited. But they have to use Bitcoin lol. But I still think that the witness discount is atrocious and abusive and I've a firm understanding about how NFTs are being pumped up artificially by a small group of elites (in order words, don't buy expensive NFTs!).