My non techie experiences connecting wallets to SN so far \ stacker news ~meta

My non techie experiences connecting wallets to SN so far

1961 sats \ 35 comments \ @siggy47 18 Aug meta

I think as SN moves away from reliance on the custodial wallet, it would be good to post about experiences so far. This is all SN mobile PWA.

Blixt works pretty well for receive only through an LN address. Just keep in mind that you have to access the lightning address by going to advanced settings and accessing the lightning box. From there it's simple.
I tried connecting my Umbrel node via LNC through Lightning Terminal. I use LNC like this to connect my Zeus wallet and it works great. Unfortunately, Umbrel doesn't support https, which SN requires for this connection. I will try it on my start9 node. It should work fine, I hope.
I tried connecting to SN through WebLN on my Blixt Wallet, since it has a lightning browser. I cannot figure out how to do this. I'm sure someone here can provide some insight.
I tried connecting my node through NWC through an Oak Node app on Umbrel, but haven't succeeded yet. @ek is looking into it for me.
I hooked up @supertestnet's new Bankify wallet #647681 with NWC for zapping. It worked, but this is an experimental wallet, so it's not a compete solution yet. It also is custodial and there's a risk of losing your sats. I only used a small amount to test. Still, the design makes it easy for non techies to use. I zapped a lot with it late last night. I forgot I was hooked up to it so I was my usual zap happy self, which may be the reason many zaps failed. However, some worked. It seems that the odds improved over WiFi as opposed to my graphene pixel data carrier.

That's it for now. Please post your experiences in reply, especially if you have one that works particularly well.

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193 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 18 Aug

Great recap Siggy. I like Blixt as well. Been using it a lot lately.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

Do you understand the WebLN connection? Blixt has that lightning browser, but I don't understand how to make the connection. If it works well, I think Blixt will be a good option for both sending and receiving.

43 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 18 Aug

I can use the lightning browser to open SN but only as anon. Also used it to open lightning roulette which is a fun way to lose some sats.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

Yes. I'm having the same problem. I can only get it to work as anon. I have also donated some sats to lightning roulette!

53 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 18 Aug

I am hoping that LNC works!! Let us know how start9 works.

53 sats \ 1 reply \ @Radentor 18 Aug

GM Siggy, i did sent you a zap with attached message asking for help, can you do me a favor ? Sorry for out-of-topic comment

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

Sure. Maybe with all my messing around I didn't get the message. Can you send it again now?

216 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 19 Aug

Thanks! It's a good article! I've recently started in Bitcoin. I don't know much but yesterday I used lightning for the first time and I was really surprised, if not better it's as smooth as UPI in India.

144 sats \ 12 replies \ @Natalia 18 Aug

I tried connecting to SN through WebLN on my Blixt Wallet, since it has a lightning browser. I cannot figure out how to do this. I'm sure someone here can provide some insight.

what I did was connect Alby with Blink ( with the API ) , it works amazing!

Here is the best SN wallet setup I found ✌🏽

Receiving: Blink LN address
Sending: Alby, but back-end with Blink's API

Another beautiful thing of this setup is you are pretty much sending and receiving from the same wallet, no need to worry about running out of sats:)

63 sats \ 11 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

Thanks. I plan on doing that on desktop. Two things:

I can't use Alby on mobile
I hate the Alby log in thing. I use it now on desktop for nostr and I will probably start with it for SN on desktop, but I would like another solution eventually. Also, Blink is banned in the US. I'm also trying to avoid any wallets that require you to create an account.

43 sats \ 10 replies \ @Natalia 18 Aug

I can't use Alby on mobile

indeed tricky this way, and I don't use SN on mobile ( hmm, maybe lurking sometimes ) 😂

I use it now on desktop for nostr and I will probably start with it for SN on desktop, but I would like another solution eventually.

You can also use https://github.com/fiatjaf/nos2x for Nostr, Alby for SN; Or to keep things simple, both with Alby.

Also, Blink is banned in the US. I'm also trying to avoid any wallets that require you to create an account.

VPN would do! #259866 and I used https://sms4sats.com/ to create the account, then removed the number after you linked the mail.

68 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

Very good workarounds! I use nos2x on desktop too. Thanks.

43 sats \ 8 replies \ @Natalia 18 Aug

I assumed would have easy ways for the mobile one day, or maybe use the cowboy credits? ✌🏽

69 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

We'll see about those cowboy credits! You raise another good point. For convenience it's important to be able to use one wallet. I really hope we get a reliable NWC connected wallet, and that SN includes NWC sending and receiving soon. One wallet is so important. SN zapping will suffer if people have to keep loading a send only wallet with sats.

43 sats \ 6 replies \ @Natalia 18 Aug

yes, it happened to me before and it's quite annoying to need to load up the sending wallet 👀 then it led me to discover this trick!

cc @k00b

254 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 18 Aug

Being worked on as we speak

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

If I can figure out WebLN on Blixt that could be a good setup for me.

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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @DEADBEEF 18 Aug

Thanks for sharing your experiences so far.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @sangekrypto 18 Aug

Blixt works well enough to receive only via LN addresses. Keep in mind that you have to access the lightning address by going to advanced settings and accessing the lightning box. From there, everything is easy.

I have seen many wallets, but there are some wallets that I think are easy to understand, and I also want to try blixt according to your post, thank you for sharing.

43 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 18 Aug

What is exactly lighting browser Idk can someone tell me

43 sats \ 2 replies \ @1GLENCoop 18 Aug

Where did you see lightning browser?

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

https://m.stacker.news/46681

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @1GLENCoop 18 Aug

Oh yeah, that. I've seen it before. Never touched it. Who has?

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

I honestly haven't a clue.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Oxcolette 18 Aug

Thank you

43 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 18 Aug

Are you sure you mean LNC? LNC doesn’t require a url at all

127 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

My mistake. This is the error I get: WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(): Refused to compile or instantiate WebAssembly module because 'unsafe-eval' is not an allowed source of script in the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'nonce-NDg4MGMxNTgtOWNjYS00YzYwLWE1OTItMzc0NGNjYzg1M2Y1' 'strict-dynamic' https:"

Keep in mind I got this message from the Lightning Terminal beta LNC connection. It has worked great for me in the past.

43 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 18 Aug

Ah, we should be able to fix that.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 18 Aug

Great to hear.

77 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 19 Aug

Just a quick note. I was jumping through hoops trying to connect my node via NWC with Oak node. I just used the Alby Hub NWC app. (Thanks @Natalia for the hint.) It couldn't have been simpler. Now I have NWC and LNC send capability to my node, and receive through my Blixt lightning address.

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