I haven’t used BlueWallet for Lightning since they had a custodial offering…
Today I see I can remotely connect it to an @Alby Hub node ⚡️🔥
Thoughts on Blue vs Zeus for this use case? Zeus is brilliant for the-node-in-the-phone, but I haven’t used to connect to a node remotely before. Pros/Cons?
I *loved* BlueWallet’s UI/UX for Lightning, until they started wrapping up the custodial service, and outgoing payments would fail 90% of the time. I’m assuming that wouldn’t happen for the Alby Hub connection, since BlueWallet is simply providing an interface for a remote node… right?
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Using Alby Hub won't guarantee that you have payment reliability since that is related to your channels you maintain on your Alby Hub node.
We're working on some tools to support this at Amboss, so stay tuned.
Makes sense. So by that same logic, it wasn’t blue’s custodial LN wallet that was the problem; it was their node?
Both were an issue.
Custodial structure made you reliant on their infrastructure and their node was unable to pay due to either their infrastructure, liquidity, visibility, or some other restriction they created on their infrastructure.
I really like Zeus for its nostr features and that's pretty much my only reason to use it over blue wallet for lightning.
When you let Zeus open the wallet upon opening the app it’s faster than BlueWallet (at least on my phone), if you have lots of Lightning nodes to manage with Zeus I would prefer BlueWallet for the Alby Hub method.
Soon you can use it with Alby Go (mobile app ; )
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