Hi WOers.
Just got a new Android phone, and thinking of installing a wallet app for petty cash. I've never done anything with Lightning, but would like to get into it, so I'm looking for a non-custodial Android app than can do both on-chain and LN transactions.
My priorities are as follows:
Stability
Security
Open-source (if possible)
Appearance/UI <-- this is important, my OCD won't allow a crappy UI.
Having used Proton's email services, I'm eyeing their Proton Wallet app, but I don't think it can do LN. I've heard of Wallet of Satoshi, Muun, Blue, based on posts here in WO.
Which one would you recommend? I don't mind a one-off payment if it's a good app.
Thanks.
I still find one of the most interesting wallets out there currently to be Aqua. This is Samson Mow's company.
https://aquawallet.io/Good interface. Unique coin strategy. Non custodial. A little complicated under the hood, but super, super simple to use.
I have used it in the past two days to send both 75 bucks and 5,000 dollars over the lightning network very simply. Small payments are going to have Crazy little fees. I think it was about 90 sats for the $75 transaction. I did have to pay about five bucks for the $5,000 transaction. But I gain privacy because it goes through liquid and lightning. And it just works... to run a lightning node to send that much you would have to do a lot of work.
So the caveats are you are basically storing almost everything as liquid Bitcoin Which I think is quite clever and smart, but some people might object to. But you can store layer one Bitcoin the wallet treats it like cold storage. And you hold the keys to everything on this, so even if the wallet went away you could still get to all this stuff.
The other thing is it does have a bunch of liquids, assets like tether, USD and other things. And which some people might appreciate, it certainly is good for people in the third world. But it junks it up a little in my opinion and I don't really use that, but some people might.
For a custodial lightning wallet that can also handle on-chain transactions, I think wallet of Satoshi is still the king if you're outside of the U.S. And they've announced recently that they're going to do a non-custodial version for the U.S. and the rest of the world.
So I read sparrow was removing its privacy features after the samurai guys got busted but now that they have been released did it change course on that?
I haven't updated the wallet since the rollback of features but would like to update it or go to a new wallet soon.
I figure your the guy to ask as I seem to see alot of conflicting info ot there and to be honest I just don't have the energy to do my own research these days.