some things you can do with any sats you might happen to have in WoS... (1) Send the sats to another lightning wallet...since WoS was the easiest (and most cucked) mobile lightning wallet available, there's gonna be a learning curve if WoS is the only lightning experience you've had. Breez and Muun are probably now the easiest mobile lightning wallets available. Muntiny can run as a webpage, a cool feature...make sure to keep that seed phrase safe though. The self-custodial lightning wallets will require either your node or a LSP's node operating in the background, and these are the most bulletproof options, with the greatlest amount of logistics required. Bitbanana (previously known as Zap), Zeus, and Blue Wallet are some mobile options here. (2) Send the sats to yourself on-chain. WoS will send on-chain txns as long as your balance is great enough (probably 10k sats of so). An interesting note is that in order to use WoS to receive on-chain, they charge a 0.5% fee (which is very uncommon for wallets to do and demonstrates that they held the keys the whole time). (3) Buy something with the sats...some options are Bitrefill, extending your VPN term, or swag from lightning.store. (4) Donate the sats to your favorite cause.

@Swan Bitcoin used to have this great privacy guide by @ODELL on their site, among other canons by other curators. I can't find it there today...what gives, Swan? https://web.archive.org/web/20220216155848/https://www.swanbitcoin.com/canon/privacy/

Stop calling our charade a charade, please.

#cafebitcoin Sept 6th 2023 "Saving for the long term is really hard in the fiat world. You have to gamble, because you don't know what share of the future you have." Tomer Strolight

Self-custody does put a lot of responsibility in your hands...all the responsibility, in fact. If you feel like you're getting in over your head, zoom out, and practice some reps with smaller amounts. Get your coldcard (or whatever cold storage you're using) set up, send 50k sats to it, then back out. With a relatively small amount of sats on it, and with seed in hand, wipe the device, then go through the process of restoring from seed. Keep increasing the amount that you're storing on it as your comfortability level increases. All these things take time and may seem tedious...it's time well spent. Once you've developed familiarity with these processes, it becomes to feel natural to trust your hodl to your own setup. Make sure to keep that seed safe...keep it secret, keep it safe.

Lunch thought...what an inefficiency that breakfast/lunch wait staff has to deal with..."white" and "wheat" are basically the same word when spoken.