What is easiest way to start with Lightning as an end user? \ stacker news ~lightning

What is easiest way to start with Lightning as an end user?

2326 sats \ 19 comments \ @Turnspit_Dog 4 Jan lightning freebie

I'm not new to crypto, but I am new to trying to use the Lightning Network. What I do not want to do is have to stand up my own Lightnining Node and manage even more technology on my free time, since I work in technology and when I'm not working, I don't want to have to do even more technology things.

Long story short, I am planning on having a very large yard sale in the next few months, and want to have the ability to accept Lightning payments... because you never know who might be another crypto user or if the situation might pop up.

I have used BlueWallet in the past for one Lightning transaction before they shut it down.

So the question is, how do I continue to use BlueWallet via the LDK settings, or should I just use Phoenix Wallet (or some other all in one solution)?

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135 sats \ 1 reply \ @deletedd 4 Jan

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog OP 4 Jan

Blixt & Zeus are the only wallets that supports LNaddress here tho

Ah good to know... I was trying to add the StackerNews LNaddress to BlueWallet earlier this morning, and was getting an error. (I'm just a caveman that bangs rocks together, so wasn't sure what was up...)

I'll check out Blixt and Zeus also. Thanks.

141 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 4 Jan

Read and refer:

@DarthCoin Guides

https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-wallets-comparison

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog OP 4 Jan

Dang... that's good stuff. I'll have to fully digest this.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 4 Jan

am planning on having a very large yard sale in the next few months, and want to have the ability to accept Lightning payments

If you don't want to manage technology, I would suggest coinos.io or Blink. very easy setup for accepting LN payments and when you want just transfer funds in your storage

@Natalia did a very good post about Blink #341247

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @jeffg 4 Jan

Would fully agree here. Blink is one of the best if you don’t want to manage any tech.

72 sats \ 2 replies \ @pillar 4 Jan

Download Phoenix.

Send a nice fat stack of sats to it with an onchain tx.

Buy a nice fat chunk of inbound liquidity with their little "Request liquidity" button.

Proceed to use seamlessly for months and years worry free.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Turnspit_Dog OP 4 Jan

Request liquidity

As such? #353683 I think I stumbled on it the other day.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 4 Jan

Exactly

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 4 Jan

I think phoenix or electrum are good. Unfortunately there is one thing with LN that you need to do which is to make room for incoming payments.

Custodial wallets like coinos.io don't have this problem, but you aren't holding your keys.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 4 Jan

Hope you moved the funds before they shut down the LN service! However Bluewallet still being a great wallet and especially if you running your own node, you ca create and chare wallets with fam and friends and be responsible for the node, liquidity, and their funds too!

In case you do ot have your node yet, or can't either use one of yoour friends, Bluewallet has the option to work as a fully non-custodial mobile wallet thanks to the latest feature of LDK as you mentiond... just tap 10 times on Lighting when creating a new wallet ad it will pop up!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog OP 4 Jan

Hope you moved the funds before they shut down the LN service!

I didn't. But, I was able to request a refund and they refunded my handful of sats back to my BTC wallet. https://bluewallet.io/docs/recover-lndhub/

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @globalmerchantio 4 Jan

I use ibex pay it works. You can have this on your phone as a pos tool.

If you want to receive SATS, NOT FIAT you do NOT have to do the KYC thing. Just designate your receiving BTC address.

I'm assuming your familiar with Shopify. I also use shopify one one of my websites which has ibex as an optional payment method. you can see it working on this site www.globalmerchant.io

which I need to add My main customer is a reseller B2B, a merchant. I am NOT after the B2C retail market.

this is the ibex link www.ibexpay.io

This is a video link

Aloha Richie

p.s. You scare me when you say crypto, I ONLY WANT BITCOIN.

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog OP 4 Jan

You scare me when you say crypto, I ONLY WANT BITCOIN.

Haha, no worries there. I spent most of my Dogecoin on the Reddit NASCAR back in the day, then converted the rest of them to BTC a few years back. I only hodl BTC in deep, deep, glacier-like cold storage. Super diamond hands for at least another 10 years.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @brave 4 Jan

For a more efficient start, start with the custodial wallet of Wallet of Satoshi and Alby first before you go non custodial

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @globalmerchantio 5 Jan

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog OP 4 Jan

I'm familiar with custodial wallets and such. Been holding some cryptos since 2014. I just haven't messed around with Lightning yet, and not ready to go full blown hosting my own nodes/channels.

Any reason to go non-custodial?

45 sats \ 1 reply \ @dieselbaby 4 Jan

Honestly, despite what some people are telling you in here, brave gave you the best advice here. Go with Alby to start, IMHO (or WoS if you are on mobile). Non-custodial lightning is a pain in the ass. Fortunately, transactions are cheap and fast so you can quite literally keep a small amount in whatever wallet you wind up choosing, and either send it to an exchange to convert it to mainnet BTC or do whatever you want with it. Hell, even CashApp has lightning support built in, you can always use that as well if you wanted.

Again, this advice is considered heresy by a lot of people here, however, if you want the easiest way to get started and aren't looking to get into hosting your own node and setting up channels, it's really the only option that doesn't result in massive stress.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BountifulB 6 Jan

I tried to "learn Lightning over the weekend" and yeah, it was massive stress. Doable but many hours of study, experimenting and risk-taking required.

What is working for me is stacking sats in Liquid where I somewhat hold my own keys and then temporarily swapping out exact (or small) amounts to custodial Lightning wallet for payments.