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I’m very happy to announce Blixt Wallet 0.6.8! It contains a new feature called speedloader by @kubernetes, which syncs LN channel db on app startup, leading to robust payment pathfinding. We want to thank Breez, which this work is derived from ⚡️

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Release 0.6.8 · BlixtWallet/blixt-wallet

Blixt Wallet v0.6.8 is here and we have an important new feature called Speedloader! Speedloader syncs the wallet's channel database ("channel grap...

Speedloader loads the channel database file on app startup. On Android, the channel database file that speedloader uses is automatically cached by a background sync job every 24h. On iOS & macOS, the file is also downloaded on startup, leading to slightly longer startup times.

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- Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 has better support for hodl invoices. On-going payments now show up as "pending" in the transaction log before they are eventually settled or cancelled. This should result in a better experience when using services like RoboSats. - Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 introduces 0-conf channel support! Add pubkeys for nodes you would like to accept 0-conf channels from.

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Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 introduces 0-conf channel support! Add pubkeys for nodes you would like to accept 0-conf channels from.

- Speedloader is open-source and can be used with a normal lnd instance.

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GitHub - djkazic/speedloader: speedloader is a gossip syncer for LND on mobile

speedloader is a gossip syncer for LND on mobile. Contribute to djkazic/speedloader development by creating an account on GitHub.

Primer is used for generating the channel db file.

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GitHub - djkazic/primer

Contribute to djkazic/primer development by creating an account on GitHub.

In a future Blixt Wallet version, we'll add the ability to choose endpoint for downloading the channel db file. - Blixt Wallet 0.6.8 includes a crash fix for certain iPhone devices. Known affected devices are: iPhone 5/5s/6/6s/7/X/XR. If you have experienced issues in the past, please give a fresh installation of Blixt Wallet a try. 🪄 - Happy Blixting everyone! 🟡

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Yet another centralized service (Lightspark) being a menace to the network by doing evil probing is not fixing Lightning. In order to promote self-custody, we need tools to improve reliability for self-custodial wallets: - Native probing (BOLT14) - Blinded paths - Stuckless payments - Async payments

Blixt Wallet and Blixt Wallet Testnet have been reinstated to the Goople Play Store. Link to Blixt Wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blixtwallet Link to Blixt Wallet Testnet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blixtwallet.testnet Happy Blixting! 🟡

Our appeal for the suspension of Blixt Wallet and Blixt Wallet Testnet on Google Play has been accepted. The apps are currently under review. We expect them to be back soon! The suspension was due to app similarities, but we've clarified that Blixt Testnet is for testing only. As always, you can download the APK directly from our releases page on GitHub:

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Releases · BlixtWallet/blixt-wallet

Bitcoin Lightning Wallet with focus on usability and user experience - BlixtWallet/blixt-wallet

In order to stay up-to-date with releases, we recommend you to use the tool Obtainium:

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GitHub - ImranR98/Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Get Android app updates straight from the source. Contribute to ImranR98/Obtainium development by creating an account on GitHub.

Read more about this in DarthCoin's article:

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Blixt Wallet and Blixt Wallet Testnet have been suspended from the Google Play Store. We are working with Google on figuring out why. In the meantime, you can download the wallet APK on GitHub.

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Releases · BlixtWallet/blixt-wallet

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At this point, it's clear that many prominent scaling technologies being proposed for Bitcoin are reliant on either OP_CTV or SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT. Seeing how SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT is such a simple softfork, I suggest that we start moving towards an activation for it in Bitcoin.

There is a proposal out there to change the internal encoding format of nostr from text-based (JSON) to binary. This is a huge mistake. One of the primary reasons why we have such vibrant ecosystem today is because of the simplicity of the nostr protocol, which means it’s easy for developers to create applications and tools. Furthermore adding another encoding format puts a lot of burden of the whole ecosystem of services, clients, relays and tools. Let’s don’t lose what we have. Don’t adopt NIP-88.

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NIP-88: binary event encoding by dr-orlovsky · Pull Request #512 · nostr-protocol/nips

At the present moment nostr (NIP-1) uses text serialization of the event data, represented in a form of a JSON object. While being simple-to-implem...

The Blixt community thanks the Human Rights Foundation for the open-source grant awarded to Hampus. ⚡️🟡 View quoted note →

The Blixt community thanks the Human Rights Foundation for the open-source grant awarded to Hampus. ⚡️🟡 View quoted note →

A good rule of thumb is DON’T BREAK USER SPACE. This is something Linus Torvalds constantly repeats regarding the Linux kernel development.