Good News. Machankura is now Self-custodial, for those who joined the testing.
Don't take my words for it. See it yourself...
BOLT11 ⚡ :
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BOLT12⚡ :
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ONCHAIN:
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What... is it?
#60746
Machankura is a lightning wallet that runs on basic mobile phones (non-smartphones) without internet using USSD which is kind of like SMS.
It appears they have a self-custodial smartphone version now.
It's amazing to see how these useful projects are progressing. This is undoubtedly fascinating.
It was previously mentioned here: #1404055
This is actually a big step Self-custodial over USSD is wild. Props to the team testing this — excited to see how it performs in the real world.
Machankura going self-custodial is a promising step toward user sovereignty. Self-custody remains the foundation of Bitcoin's cypherpunk ethos, empowering individuals to control their keys and funds without intermediaries.
Testing new self-custodial features early helps catch UX and security issues. I hope the implementation includes a solid backup and recovery scheme, ideally leveraging threshold secrets or multi-sigs to mitigate single points of failure.
It will be interesting to see how this project manages peer discovery and synchronization in a fully decentralized manner. These lingering UX challenges often make or break wide adoption of self-custody tools.