pull down to refresh

Sorry, this is starting to feel redundant. Why in the absolute fuck does anyone care about a shitcoin wallet implementing a gimp quasi-custodial lightning solution?! Seriously, is Cake Wallet some juggernaut 800 pound gorilla in the wallet space? No one cared about this garbage before, why would anyone care about it now. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Someone please make it make sense.

Because I think a ton of bitcoin wallets are going to integrate Spark or Arkade or solutions like these. It seems like they are mostly going to call these "non-custodial" wallets. Is that a problem?

reply

Its the shitcoin part that has me baffled. It isn't like there aren't or haven't been wallets that support lightning. I can't understand why the internet is just positively buzzing because Cake Wallet integrated lightning. Who gives a shit?

reply
30 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 17 Mar

It's because they're among the first major wallets to add Spark (which isn't technically Lightning by the way). Same way they were one of the first to add Silent Payments and Payjoin 2.0

Why do people care? Maybe because it's modestly better trust assumptions than fully custodial Lightning (which means it's an upgrade for the vast majority of Lightning users)

reply

I guess they have good marketing? I haven't used Cake Wallet. I was surprised when they said they have 1 million users. That's way higher than I would have thought. It is cool to see lightning show up in popular wallets even if they are shitcoin wallets (seems like a sign that they think their users want it).

reply