What's the best Lightning user experience you've ever had? Online or in person?
739 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 22 Feb
Paying few sats for vpn by the minute.
Beats all the other services with recurring subscriptions.
Edit: https://lnvpn.net/
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @leo OP 23 Feb
this looks good!
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612 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 23 Feb
Custodial wallets always win in UX, but a great non-custodial experience is Phoenix wallet. (Trust-minimized, actually.)
There is no perfectly trustless, non-custodial lightning wallet yet but we're getting closer.
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240 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 23 Feb
paid a fellow bitcoiner's kids for their homemade handicrafts at a meetup. it was awesome, the kids totaled my bill, sent an invoice, I paid it, we all high-fived.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @leo OP 23 Feb
awesome! did they have an easy time making the invoice? did they show you the qr code or send you the invoice otherwise?
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551 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 23 Feb
Landed in Germany and got a text from my US cell provider demanding $10 a day.
Bought an esim from silent link for $10 a month and paid in lightning.
Had cell service before I got my bags at baggage claim.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @leo OP 23 Feb
great use case!
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @j736633j 23 Feb freebie
Well zbd for Shure
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @koqoo 23 Feb
Discovering Paid Lightning microservices on Nostr NIP-105.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter 23 Feb
I wasn't too much aware about lightening until Binance implemented it in app for payments. But ever since then most of my payments in Bitcoin have been via Binance.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/how-to-use-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-to-deposit-and-withdraw-btc-on-binance-7a4eb2d9ccaf4433908b448aa3a93493
The WoS is another that I use mostly for smaller transactions.
The best experience came when the first ever transaction I made through lightening and it's been taht way ever.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @leo OP 23 Feb
Ah, so you use the binance app to make payments? You can use your regular BTC balance for that? Is that easy to find, or do you have to go through lots of extra steps to confirm the transaction?
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 23 Feb
Yes I use without any extra steps
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @037447d9ca 25 Feb
ditch that shit and use a real lightning wallet. Binance is cancer
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 22 Feb
This was awhile ago ... haven't tried more modern, vouched for things much yet except to play around.
Noncustodial:
- BTCPay Server or Zaprite for sending to receiver online
- When sending, Zeus hooked up to my node or Breez
- Muun was great when fees were low
Custodial:
- Open Node for sending to receiver online
- When sending, it's all the same really
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Louferlou 23 Feb
Honestly tipping through Alby but linked to my own node is very satisfying, on nostr or on lightning enabled websites. 2 click and then money flows at speed of light to enrich total strangers creating good content.
Also paying people abroad for their services, without worrying about any currency exchange rate/fees and bank authorization is amazing.
You really realize how our parasitic overlords are keeping the world in misery for much longer than is should have been, without any other reason that keeping their privileges on the money printing, through nonsensical mone monopoly and legal tender...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taft 23 Feb
When I first realized that I could sand and receive small amounts of sats from my friends after the Lightning Network was released.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taurus 23 Feb
Probably buying pizza in a real restaurant, giving sats to friends, paying for movie services (not working anymore) and Donating Btc through LN to Human Rights Fundation.
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