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mattaroo | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Not ideal by any stretch of the imagination. 1. Its custodial 2. Apple gets 30% fee on you sat purchases 3. Now Apple knows all your sats purchases history
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Joe | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 True but perfect for like %90 of consumers.
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mattaroo | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That's just not good enough in my opinion.
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pavle | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You can top up your wallet however you like, buying through the Apple Store was a requirement from Apple.
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mattaroo | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I don't understand what you mean. I can top my wallet off any way I like BUT I have to buy through Apple? That makes no sense. What am I missing?
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pavle | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 No, you get a regular lighting address, and you can top up any way you want just like any other Lightning address. 
But Apple doesn’t allow promotions of those other means in the app itself, and mandates a way to get sats via the in-app purchases. 
So you won’t see any other way to top it up in the app, we were forbidden from even mentioning it, but you can always do it.
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mattaroo | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Ok. That is good news as far as getting sats into your custodial wallet. Thanks.
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aidan | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Apple Pay doesn’t have fees on top; 30% is for in-app purchases during the first year. So this is cheap+easy but KYC’d sats.
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aidan | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I take that back, it’s *not* using Apple Pay as the OP says. It’s in-app purchase which means the 30% fee is taken as you stated. 😕 https://image.nostr.build/03662c45a5bb4f9b52603b87c7a19ee5f630dfd0e5e14659b5369381fa24d744.jpg