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Recently took the train to Lugano to see that the statue of Satoshi Nakamoto had indeed been removed by vandals. So I also used the opportunity to try using Muun at real world vendors. Now, I knew that Muun isn't REAL lightning, but I'd always had and still have an excellent experience using Muun online. Specifically, every transaction has been maybe a second to process. I tried Muun at three different vendors and every one of them was more than a minute of processing. One was several minutes and the waiter encouraged me to try again. I did so, but Muun said it had already processed that transaction. I can only imagine that the little vendor boxes that create and process a lightning transaction are really slow and inefficient.
Besides custodial lightning like WoS, the smoothest and most problem-free experience I've had with self-custodial LN in the IRL wilds is Phoenix and it's not even close.
I've seen people use Zeus very easily around me but for some reason txn take a while and often fail, forcing me to resync graph and whatnot. It might be an issue with my phone setup though. Wish it worked better.
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Sadly, I left Lugano before having an opportunity to try other wallets.
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If you were traveling, were you on Wifi or some kind of temporary eSIM? Wonder if connectivity issues can arise from using those, or if most LN issues are something else.
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I was on regular cellular with a reasonable signal strength. No temporary SIM or eSIM. MUUN was super quick to open, show balance, read the QR code, and start the transaction.
I believe the slowness is a result of the box being used by the Lugano merchants. MUUN is super fast on all the online transactions I've ever done. I would like to hear the experience of other people in Lugano.
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Very unlikely it's vendor lag, fake lightning wallets like muun use slow, unreliable, and expensive centralized swaps.
Try with a real lightning node, assuming the vendors use real lightning as well it'll be nearly instant and nearly free.
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Are you able to try Blitz wallet?
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Fake lightning wallet 💩
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What is a real one?
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I don't recommend any mobile nodes, but at least Zeus, Blixt, and Phoenix make an honest effort.
I think the original Breeze is still maintained too, but I might be wrong, they pivoted to fake lightning recently.
Correct path is an always-on node, like Lightning.Pub, accessed remotely via nostr with ShockWallet
Zeus can use a remote node as well but is harder to set up, Alby also. Might be some LNbits options too.
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I run a start9 and have both alby and zeus running. Connecting with zeus is always a pain, but when it works it's great. Alby does a great job. Very simple, usually reliable
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