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That's a pretty cool, and helpful, app. I like this.

Hey, nice looking app, I've added a few notes on the Bounties board. Hope I've done it correctly. I really enjoy testing apps so I'll hopefully find time to add a few more.

Thanks! Great suggestions, bounties unlocked 👍 🔓

Also I’m not sure if you wrote the note but push notifications are available on an opt in basis in settings. Apple won’t let me have them on by default.

Cheers guys. Tried sending the unlocked bounties to my lightning wallet but it says "insufficient balance across all mints for invoice + fees". Do I need to use eCash? I'm fairly new here, so it's very likely that I am doing something wrong.

It won’t let you withdraw the full balance via lightning because it has to reserve fees for the lightning payment and needs to overestimate since it doesn’t know what the exact amount will be. All ecash wallets work this way.

I kinda get it, I've never really dealt with eCash and mints before. I get that there's fees attached to process the payment, but I think I'm falling down when it comes to the eCash and mint aspect paying out to a lightning wallet. Thanks in advance 🙏⚡️

Just transfered 99% of the bounty total (wvery day is a school day). Many many thanks for the reply and the sats. I'll check in on the app again as it develops, and will read up on eCash and mints in the meantime. 🙏⚡️🧡

If you know how lightning works, a mint is essentially a lightning bank. When a wallet requests a payment via lightning, the mint generates an invoice to receive it and the funds go to the mint, then it gives the wallet ecash tokens representing the amount that was received (kind of like an IOU or a coupon). These tokens can then be sent p2p and at anytime they can be redeemed at the mint, and the mint will initiate a lightning payment for the wallet. I hope this is helpful and not more confusing. The mint handles all lightning transactions for the wallets, and the wallets handle p2p ecash transactions and direct the mint to receive and send lightning payments in exchange for the ecash.

Thank you so much for that, it'll take a bit to become second nature but I think I get it. Pretty much like a bank with cash IOUs (except you can actually redeem funds) ? So do all lighting payments go via a mint (just normally the user doesn't have a clue, less friction)? If so, what's the reasoning behind having public facing eCash and mints (my brain hasn't quite made the jump)?

Not all lightning uses ecash. Ecash is useful because it enables offline payments, diversified custody, gives excellent privacy to users, and wallets can work with public mints without needing to create a dedicated account with each one.

I like the sound of it tbh, setting up accounts sucks, offline is cool af and money should (in certain instances) be frictionless in essence. I'll figure it out. Thanks a lot for the explanations.