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when a customer pays a merchant with lightning they have nearly perfect privacy from the merchant. they do not know what utxo funded the payment. they do not know transaction history. wallets such as bull bitcoin and phoenix make it incredibly easy to move from onchain to lightning without running your own node or managing channels. few appreciate this.

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Hey man! We just closed a big round of clean ups on swaps over the weekend to iron out a lot of minor issues in swaps and it should be a much smoother experience going forward. Unfortunately integrating support in the app hasn't taken priority since we are a small team and focussed on actual wallet features. Support on Telegram is very prompt. Someone is always there to take care of you round the clock!
Swaps are non-custodial and funds won't be lost unless you lose your keys. Since you deleted your app the recovery is a bit more involved and you'll have to contact us on Telegram. We have now added an explicit warning not to delete the app mid swap and in our December release we will have support for boltz's swap restore api, which will help in cases where users lose their phone or by accident delete the app mid swap - this flow requires boltz to share their public key. In a future release we will also have metadata backups which will allow recovery without boltz, where we will help you backup boltz's pubkey as well.
Again, Seth has done more to help Bitcoin adoption than you. Most of the early Bitcoiners are Multi-coiners, and moved on from Bitcoin because they saw issues with it. Bitcoin is a technology first, currency second, and commodity third. If Bitcoin fails to catch up to its competitors in transmission of value then it will be replaced by technology/currencies that do it better. When I started in Bitcoin it still had inflation bugs.
"To summarize, the Cake Wallet cryptocurrency wallet software relied on a weak Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) to generate Bitcoin wallets, which is a catastrophic design flaw." "Looking for actual public usage, we found: 8757 unique weak main wallets 12999 unique sub-accounts (not counting change addresses) 13401 unique addresses (counting change addresses) ca. 51600 transactions involving these addresses About 548.9 BTC of funds have moved through them between 2020-11-30 and 2024-10-10."
Cheers.
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"To summarize, the Cake Wallet cryptocurrency wallet software relied on a weak Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) to generate Bitcoin wallets, which is a catastrophic design flaw." "Looking for actual public usage, we found: 8757 unique weak main wallets 12999 unique sub-accounts (not counting change addresses) 13401 unique addresses (counting change addresses) ca. 51600 transactions involving these addresses About 548.9 BTC of funds have moved through them between 2020-11-30 and 2024-10-10."
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Cake wallet .. nom nom nom what a delights ! Cake wallet treats BTC like the king it is, but with privacy twist that will make your heart race . Man can store sats safe and zapping everyone world wide or receive via QR code and the address can refresh after each use , just like Changing your underwear after steamy night ! Think that..
Where did I say to defund them? You also said you / OpenSats don't fund them. I did not like the way you promote them because they are not Bitcoin only and because they have had vulnerabitlity that led to many vulnerable Bitccoin wallet addresses. That is why I shared this research so you see what you are actually promoting. Its of course your choice what to promote. Or fund.
isn't the @Alby wallet just as good or better than bull bitcoin and phoenix? why not give @Alby a mention also? Especially considering @Alby browser extension since many shop from their desktop. Alby Go mobile wallet available also. Don't think you have as many options w bull or phoenix.
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If setting up a friend on phoenix, can you just send 10k SATs via lightning to them? I get error "fee is insufficient" (from my phoenix wallet) I have tried larger amounts. I have plenty of funds in the wallet (outbound). Is there some way to increase the fee? Anyone? I have searched plenty andwatchedBTCsessions vid. This should work?