Blixt Wallet is back with the final release in the 0.6.x release line, v0.6.9-420. Nice! This version has a new feature for Android, Lightning Box. Lightning Box is a service letting you receive via a Lightning Address non-custodially to your Blixt.

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Release 0.6.9-420 · smolcars/blixt-wallet

The final frontier is here for the 0.6.x release line, v0.6.9-420. Nice! This one has a great new feature for Android, Lightning Box. Lightning Box...

Lightning Box works in conjunction with Persistent Mode that was released in Blixt Wallet v0.6.9. For things to work out well, make sure battery optimization is disabled. Battery drain is expected to be low or not noticeable if things go as expected. Reach out if you have issues. The Lightning Box service will forward Lightning Address (LNURL-pay) requests directly to the wallet app on the phone, so it can respond back with an invoice created by the wallet itself. This means that while this service is not a custodian, there is still trust involved. Lightning Box is free and open-source software and anyone can choose to run their own service provider.

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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

In Blixt Wallet settings, you can easily change the server to your own. The Blixt Wallet project will host a Lightning Box instance for @blixtwallet.com addresses. A draft bLIP specification for the inner workings of this protocol can be found here:

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blips/blip-lnurlforward.md at lnurl-forwarding · hsjoberg/blips

Bitcoin Lightning Improvement Proposals . Contribute to hsjoberg/blips development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is built using Lightning P2P messages, so any lightning node wallet implementation can choose to implement this protocol. That's all for now. Cheers and Happy Blixting! 🟡⚡️

Nice. Blixt Wallet is back with v0.6.9! We have a lot of new stuff in this release, such as a new stable Tor implementation, Persistent Mode, Simple Taproot Channels support, 0-conf channels support for Dunder LSP, and a bunch of new languages.

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Release v0.6.9 · smolcars/blixt-wallet

Blixt Wallet is back with version 0.6.9. Nice! This release has a lot of goodies, such as Simple Taproot Channels support, new robust Tor implement...

--- This release has a new Tor backend ("newtor") on Android that should be much more robust and reliable. You don't need to do anything in order to experience it, just make sure you have Tor enabled in Blixt settings. --- Blixt Wallet now has support for Simple Taproot Channels! Your private channels will just look like normal Taproot transactions if you do a coop close, which is great for privacy. Dunder LSP & autopilot will also support this feature in the near future. --- Blixt Wallet on Android has a new Persistent Mode, which lets Blixt stay in the persistently in the background. This can be helpful if you're awaiting a payment, or if you just want to keep in-sync with the chain. Depending on the device, this mode may drain more battery life. In a future release, we will allow self-custodial Lightning Address support for users opting in to the Persistent Mode. --- There were a lot of more stuff than the ones discussed here, so be sure to read the changelog. If you wish to download the app, head over to https://blixtwallet.com. Thanks to all contributors in this release and Happy Blixting everyone! 🟡

Blixt Wallet v0.6.9 is around the corner.

No, Lightning is not dead. But let this be a wake-up call that we should not put all our eggs in one basket. We need to explore alternative scaling ideas. Therefore I am supportive of the covenants softfork and the OP_CAT proposal, which help many Layer 2s.

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Covenant tools softfork by jamesob · Pull Request #28550 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Conceptual discussion here: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/covenant-tools-softfork/98 This draft is a patch that activates the consensus changes outl...

Mobile LN nodes and wallets rock!

Testing to post to a cool new relay

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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 · smolcars/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 (@BlixtWallet) on X

Speedloader loads the channel database file on app startup. On Android, the channel database file that speedloader uses is automatically cached b...

- 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 (@BlixtWallet) on X

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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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?