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 What's the best alternative wallet these days? 
 I saw minibits suggested. I'm trying out coinos. Now sure what else is out there for receiving zaps.

Zeus is another option for sending, but I've had problems with that lately. When it works, you can receive as long as you have the app open at the time someone's trying to send to you. 
 Having the app open to receive? Lol. That UX will never catch on. Insane. 
 It's fine for if you are making payments in person.

If you have your own lightning node, Zeus can connect to that, and you can receive without the app open.

But Zeus's real strengths are that
1. it doesn't need any other infrastructure and therefore
2. you don't depend on anyone else to move your money

Maybe Zeus users will have some hosted wallet (coinos, minibits, etc.) to receive money and if it gets too much money in it, they'll move ot over to Zeus. Get the best of both worlds and mininize risk. 
 Update: nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmnyqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueq555fk2 seems to be working for me now, at least for sub 1K values. 🎉

Their suggestions from the other day didn't help at the time, and I still have 10,000+ zombie channels, but it's working now so 🤷.

I'm just glad I didn't have to close channels to get my money back.