Blixt v0.6.0 has been released. What I really like about Blixt (as well as SBW, OBW and Standard Sats) is this concept of a mobile LN node. You can manage channels (nearly) as you know it from your home node. A special functionality opens channels automatically, so you have a good user experience from the get go. Blixt is now not only a mobile LN and on-chain Wallet, it's also possible to use it on MacOS. Also a few bugfixes including the recent LND fix have been incorporated. I always had issues running it through tor on android. On clearnet it always worked great. But since, at least for me, tor by default is a privacy best practice, i abandoned Blixt. But I certainly will look into it in the near future again. Oh and sats are the standard now in Blixt.

What really caught my attention this week was the satsigner wallet. The UX/UI on this one is breath-taking. It's like a learning by doing wallet. With bitcoin, like with many things, doing it is way better than reading about it. You get amazing visualization of all the bitcoin best practices, from coin control to transaction fees and transaction graph as well as account management. Not yet released but very promising. Since the main developer Pedro claims it's privacy focused, i hope for tor by default. Connecting to your own node should be taken for granted. Even joinmarket implementation is possible. Just look at the concept pictures here. Sign me in for an early test drive! Hey Pedro, where is your donation link?

Standard Sats Wallet is now available under the new name Valet and it also got a new logo. Reason behind that is most probably THIS tweet.

Since it it quite silent this week in regards to wallet news, I want to set things straight: