I'm trying to grasp all the various complexities of Lightning, and I have stupid convoluted questions every day. Today's is:
SQ. So lots of wallets have both Lightning and Bitcoin, right, now are they 2 separate wallets or one single wallet? Like, if I have some bitcoin in my BlueWallet bitcoin wallet, and then add a BlueWallet lightning wallet and send some sats to it, then is there a combined bitcoin+lightning balance? Probably two separate wallets, as they display separate amounts, but why is that? Isn't Lightning just another window to the same counter at your bank? And if it is not, it should be, right?
Ok, different phrasing, suppose I have 1 BTC somewhere, and I want to save it on BlueWallet, I send it in chunks, some to the BlueWallet-Bitcoin and some to the BlueWallet-lightning. Why should I keep them separate, and not put them in one or the other? And if I had to keep all 1 BTC in either one of them, which one should it be, and why?
Sorry, this is how most brains work!