Trying to set up Mutiny for self custody lightning and a zappable profile. Am I missing anything? Happy to pay for the service because its already so smooth and sexy, but is this the only way to be a semi-self-sovereign nostr noob?

nostr:nevent1qqsrg3l2qyygerzza79m7jjlrgl3q5jznqdgqc84zdzlcvvjcrrqzscppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzp4le4janp4zjsyasy8pg5fg974stc9j7ss75gftktsm67068hgs4qvzqqqqqqy3ypgrp 

 There is also Zeus. I personally use custodial LN wallets for nostr, don't need to have self custody just for a few sats.  

 That's a fair point. But which one (since Alby isn't taking new users, wallet of satoshi shut down, strike is KYC, and it looks like Primal.net needs me to make another new nostr account) lol 

 I use minibits. https://www.minibits.cash/ it's ecash/LN been working great for me. Before minibits I was using Zeus (self custodial)  

 Not yet, we'll have a free one eventually 

 Gotcha. I just tried to send about 1M SATs from Phoenix tonmynnew mutiny acct via lightning but it hasn't reflected any change. Is it waiting for a channel confirmation? If so, it would be good to indicate that to the user waiting for his funds to arrive ;) 

 FYI – I’m trying to pay the Mutiny+ subscription fee but it can’t find a route. 

 Mutiny node connectivity issues? I feel like it's usually that when multiple users can't connect to a LSP sort of thing... Right? 

 OK, I finally got it working after a bunch of tries and waiting an hour.

Can you shill me a federation? 

 I tried joining Freedom One, but have yet to receive the channel opening payment so I'm feeling less trusty, more verify-y at the moment 

 Where’s the invite code for this? I’m not seeing anything under Discover Federations. 

 There was a button/CTA to join a recommended fed, this was second in the list. What if you go to the settings sidebar and click federations?

Try this invite code

fed11qgqzz8mhwden5te0vejkg6tdd9h8gepwvchxjmm5w4hxgunp9e3k7mf0qyqjpj2ykt73ullqfj58lxjh67y5ed53zm8vvfjvk5h65ufz3a8v2nxky9wuce 

 There we go. Took me a few tries, so there’s definitely some friction to work out in the process, but I finally have a Mutiny+ address!

thedaniel@mutiny.plus
https://image.nostr.build/8548c97926c256ac889d8853dca15903fd58bfde887c1c99a52c79caed822185.gif 

 And once again zapping a mutiny user from alby seems to always be temperamental. 

 Hopefully it went through. Always shows me the orange timer logo here in Damus. 

 Yes, it worked! Zaps from @sudocarlos and @jamw came in, plus a test from my node. 

Once the onboarding flow gets easier, this is going to be one of the best ways to get zapped. Very fucking cool, guys.

🙌⚡️ https://i.nostr.build/6GKMn.jpg  

 Excellent 👍🏼 

 Did it work? 

 Not yet, hopefully this becomes a free feature at some point. I agree, it isn’t very newbie-friendly at this stage.