As much as I like Bitkey for its simplicity, somehow it feels it could be fleshed out better.

As some have pointed out, you can’t consolidate your funds with it, ie you can’t send to yourself.

It’s super simplistic (which is a good thing, but not always) in things it can do. I mean, ok get it, it’s Bitcoin only so all kinda trade functions are probably difficult without any exchange behind.

But it seems to be geared on for daily use (with the mobile pay option, which I like - and never used) but then it really needs to support Lightning. Nobody’s using on-chain for small purchases that mobile pay enables.

Running our own lightning node, I can’t imagine how it would scale on Bitkey’s installed base. Then you have the liquidity nightmares that necessarily come with it (especially if/when you don’t charge for it, see phoenix which I like to like but can’t like as it just simply doesn’t work for me)

Due to the lack of lightning offers, I often use ETH nowadays :-( 

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m surely’d have the means to equip Block with said means to run lightning for all bitkey users without charge, but will they do it? 

I love lighting and wish more people would use it and more services would accept it…