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121  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: An aggressive gambler irrelevantly easing his Irresponsible gambling manner. on: May 01, 2024, 01:39:34 PM
It is still his choice to bet that boxing guy and no one force him to place a bet on that specific boxer but little did the bettor know that the boxer still receive money from that fight even if he lose it. The gambler is for me irresponsible as he balme others for his loss. I don't think he might get some good return in that kind of attitude though still a matter of luck but yeah he is still the loser.
He was frustrated. The cause of the frustration would be because he used huge amount of money or money that he is not able to afford to lose to gamble. He also did not have the knowledge that the boxer will make money if he lost or not. Some people are looking for every means to make money from gambling. They will become addicted to it, spend more money on it, look for more ways but still continue to lose until they will realize that gambling should be done with just little amount of money that they can afford to lose.
122  Economy / Reputation / Re: Is this an obvious misuse of merit? on: May 01, 2024, 01:26:05 PM
I don't think that this is an enough reason for a tag. Being able to guess the price of bitcoin is a good job already, it must not be some walls of text to be quality. Secondly, the user being tagged is a full member and also not a merit source.
It is just a neutral feedback. But you are right. That is why it is good to grow a thick skin. You can see that the user is not having good posts to make. Check his topic to know that. If the user that gave him the neutral tag is not right, but the user that was given the neutral tag has no value or anything useful to give which means he is not necessary to fight for. The user is just having nothing good to render and will most likely be a troll and a spammer.

[No, this is not a reputation topic. It is about merit and not anyone's reputation. Merit related matters belong to meta.
This is more about someone on this forum and it is about reputation. It is not about this forum.

I'd say this is a case of "not great, not terrible". Nothing much is lost, spammers won't suddenly be able to rank up because of this, and it's not the first time I've seen Merit being used as some sort of reward.
What I know is that the user is just not having the quality posts that is worth someone fighting for. I have seen merit source and people that are sending merit to other thinge like contest or using it to merit people that make use of their service on this forum. Some will merit people that post under their campaign management or anything like that but nothing happened because their presence is still worthy on this forum. I totally agree with you.
123  Economy / Services / Re: [OPEN] BlackJack.Fun | Signature Campaign | Up to $90/W on: May 01, 2024, 08:09:30 AM
Bitcointalk Usermane: _act_
Blackjack.fun Username: _act_

Applying for hero member slot if available.
124  Other / Archival / Re: Is there a merit locking function? I want my merit to stay at 111 cuz it's cool. on: May 01, 2024, 07:18:58 AM
You can not prevent anyone to stop sending your post merit. If you do not want merit from anyone, you can stop posting. If you post and some people find it useful and helpful, they can send you merit. But why do you like to troll on this forum? This topic is kind of having no reason.
125  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I'm finding it difficult to login my metamask wallet I need help on: April 30, 2024, 11:53:06 PM
Metamask do not have login but you will use the seed phrase to access it. Or am I wrong?

Probably you updated it and the new version is too heavy for your present phone OS to load. I guess it is on phone. Update your phone OS to the newest version.
126  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Top 9 Campaign Managers of 2024..... on: April 30, 2024, 02:05:04 PM
You should have put the names in alphabetical order, OP, otherwise it is understood that you put them in order of importance, which is consistent with Hhampuz being number 1 (by total number of campaigns and weeks of duration managed on Bitcointalk to date).
He can put it in order of what he wants and not necessary to use any order. He did not put it in order of importance because icopress can not be on the last list if order of importance is used. I think he only listed it as he thinks the lists should be.
127  Economy / Gambling / Re: Parser on: April 30, 2024, 11:00:45 AM
For educative purposes only. What is this alledged scam even about? From what I can understand by giving a reading to what OP means, hm this seems to be something similar to arbitrage, but he does not explicitly talk about making money out of difference of odds according to the state of markets. So I don't understand yet how this scam is supposed to work. Since you mention Telegram, I can only assume this is the kind of thing where OP will try to fish someone into requiring more information about those markets and he would ask money for it. But I insist... This does not seem to be as obvious as other people who have come here and directly drop their Telegram for people to get "premium tips" on matches or stuff like that.

Would you care to explain?
For people to later meet him on Telegram is his aim. You can see the topic he posted today. Let me quote it for you to see.

Hello forum members. I recently found a vulnerability between bookmakers, mostly from different countries, mainly Chinese bookmakers and Western ones, where the odds in Chinese bookmakers drop very quickly. And I came up with the idea to create a parser to find such matches. These were mostly e-sports matches. I wouldn't discuss this topic on a public forum, but because of such bets, I received a betting limit. I would like to discuss the specific matches and screens in more detail privately with evidence. I need 3-4 people to work with this parser. People who don't have limits in bookmakers. So I suggest insuring these matches 80 to 20 or 50 to 50. And I would like to discuss all the new details in Telegram.

He came to this forum to look for a loan which would have been a scam if anyone borrowed him. He is looking for other means now when his former plan failed.
128  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Parser on: April 30, 2024, 09:26:18 AM
Well I asked the moderators for permission to advertise this parser, they gave me permission and told me to create a new topic in this wall.
This is not the way to advertise. You are getting it so wrong. Advertise means you want to come up with a service, post about it and make it clear for people about a service and maybe possibly bring up a campaign about it also. But you want to bring up a service and not advertising anything. You are only looking for money and no money to be made from anyone on this forum which means it is not an advertisement.

If everything you want to do is on this forum, that is fine. But as you want to take it to telegram, it is better for people to avoid anything you are posting if they want to avoid scam.
129  Economy / Gambling / Re: Parser on: April 30, 2024, 09:18:59 AM
Hello guys, is it possible to advertise a parser here for betting on peculiar matches in esports? By peculiar, I mean, for example, when there's a significant odds shift in Chinese bookmakers that European bookmakers don't notice.
You do not need to start to spam the forum because of what you called advertisement. It is not even an advertisement but you are advancing to scam when people told you already that you can bring up such discussion on this forum. Later you give your telegram link which is the commonest way scammers are using to do their work. I hope people will stay away from you. This should just be a discussion and not an advertisement.
130  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2024-04-30] Bitcoin Dominance Rises as Altcoins Decline on: April 30, 2024, 09:12:05 AM
Bitcoin dominance has not falling below 50% since may months ago. It is more than a year ago or more. Bitcoin dominance right now is 53.53%. But I do not see this to be new because bitcoin has really been dominating the crypto market since the beginning of crypto existence and till now.
131  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Lists of open-source bitcoin lightning wallets on: April 29, 2024, 07:05:35 PM
Now, since it's not my work I am not going to download those images and upload them to talkimg or some other place without tagging all of them as to where they came from. Which leads to the "need a lot of free time" thing.
Thanks for the helpful posts. I will find time to do that and upload the results on this thread.

Back to this subject. Another data point might be TOR can use (yes / no) and built into the app (yes / no)
Some like BTCitbanana will connect over TOR and it's included in the build. Others do not and require TOR on the device.
Yes I saw that you can enable and disable Tor on Bitbanana but what if the wallet does not have Tor built-in. I do not have a lightning node to test those that you have to connect your node and external Tor. But I will try my best to include this and leave the space blank for those I am not able to get. Hopefully if someone using any of the wallet can come up to let us know if they can connect to external Tor which is not inbuilt for those that requires individual node connection.

Remember that Phoenix is going to stop services in US

https://coinstats.app/news/f2214258426b3225ec4497c838fa31f039a0744efd5a09414c44e08c0c2d1b36_Phoenix-Wallet-Halts-Services-For-US-Users/

Probably due to problems related to samourai.
I read about this that Phoenix will no longer be available on May 3 for US citizens or something like that. I will keep on checking the official site and on GitHub to know how true that would be. But I guess the site can not be taken down because of US but US IP address can be restricted. You can access the site with Tor or VPN which its IP address is set to another country location. Tor better and private.

On Tor I was able to access Phoenix official site that contains a link to their GitHub release page that can be used to download and use the wallet: https://phoenix.acinq.co/download

You can also access the file to download it directly on their GitHub release page: https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases

With how this is, the app can be removed from Google and App stores for US citizens but I still see no way that the app and service can be disabled for US citizens that still want to continue to use it. The site is not taken down and US citizens can still be able to access it as other non US citizens can access it.
132  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Lists of open-source bitcoin lightning wallets on: April 29, 2024, 03:04:27 PM
I think we should also have a bit of a discussion about what a lightning network wallet is.
There are some useful lightning network posts in the past, I will add some to the OP. But posts some posts created by RapTarX and Rath_ (who is the father of lightning network on this forum) have invalid imgur images. I will find something to do about the images if they both do not come back on this forum to update the image. But there was a time Rath_ posted that he will update the invalid images to valid ones but nothing has been done and I guess it is because he is too busy to do anything on the forum.

These are the thread I saw useful for the lightning network introductory post:
A Beginner's guideline to Bitcoin Lightning Network
Basics of the Lightning Network
The Lightning Network FAQ
The Lightning Network node experience
Lightning Network Observer


I can also add some other useful ones but which are not on this forum.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network#:~:text=The%20Lightning%20Network%20(LN)%20is,to%20the%20bitcoin%20scalability%20problem.
https://medium.com/coinmonks/getting-started-with-bitcoin-lightning-network-5cd57e218463
https://tara-annison.medium.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-lightning-network-aa2f7f9c6c31

If you are running something like BTCitbanana you are more or less running a front end on your own lightning node (or whatever node you are connecting to)
The private keys are generated and the wallet is setup / configured BEFORE you connect to it with the app.

Same with the web front ends, is Ride The Lightning https://www.ridethelightning.info/ a web wallet is Thunderhub https://thunderhub.io/ a web wallet?
These are two wallets that are also just like BTCitbanana because you have to connect your own node. If they are open source, I will also add them when I am adding the web wallet that support lightning network.
133  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Lists of open-source bitcoin lightning wallets on: April 29, 2024, 08:28:44 AM
What about the other Dapp wallets like Trust Wallet, Bitget Wallet etc? I often utilise Bitget Wallet as my first preference and undoubtedly it has added a few exceptional features that others haven't, it supports Future trading, deposits via the P2P method, a launchpad for other projects, Swap with a limit option, NFTs, minting, sources of multiple DApps at one place etc.
Trustwallet and Bitget wallet are not bitcoin lightning wallet. They support bitcoin but it is better you use good wallet that are not close source but open source for bitcoin. There are many bitcoin wallets that are open source. Electrum, Passport, Trezor, Sparrow, Bluewallet, Unstoppable, Green and many other wallets are bitcoin wallets.

I've downloaded Aqua Wallet recently after reading all the discussion about Aqua wallet here. All the details about Aqua wallet are still in the process of being found out.
Previously, I had also used Bluewallet as a result of recommendations from several leading forum users and concluded that Bluewallet was a good wallet after Electrum.
Electrum and Bluewallet lightning network are not for newbies. To open a channel on Electrum is more manual and some newbies may not like that. You will need to be a lightning node runner before you can use Bluewallet as it will need your node address.
134  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Lists of open-source bitcoin lightning wallets on: April 29, 2024, 06:59:13 AM
After channel opening, low fee can be used for lightning transactions which can be good for daily or frequent transactions. Transaction confirmation time is very fast which is just a matter of few seconds.
I guess many of us do not use lightning network very often. I can not remember when was the last time I used it and always felt it's not convenient for regular use.
You do not use it regularly probably because you are a campaign manager and transfer huge amount of money weekly. Also that that lightning network has not been made convenient in a way you can send to many people at one time. I have not seen a lightning wallet that does that. But not good for huge amount dealings.

Lightning network is not well adopted but it grew a little in the past time.



Bitcoin Lightning Network Growth Surges by 1,200% in 2 Years

Name: Electrum
Supported OS: click here
Warning: Experimental
GitHub repository: Click here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: On-chain
Newbies friendly: No
Backup: Wallet file. 12 word seed phrase may be important to force close a channel.
Launch date: July 3, 2020 (Version 4.0.1)
Are you sure about the Launch date? I have been using it from decade :-P
Electrum was created in 2012. The news of Electrum to support lightning network was in October, 2019 and the developers released version 4.0.1 in 2020. You can go to their update release to see that.

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES
135  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Lists of open-source bitcoin lightning wallets on: April 28, 2024, 09:07:40 PM
Warning:

If you are using any of these wallets, know that you are at your own risk.

Lightning network should be used for small amount of bitcoin, the safest way are still cold and multisig wallets for on-chain transactions. Lightning wallets are just good for small amount of bitcoin and for frequent transactions.

Some lightning wallets open and close channels using liquid network which depends on intermediaries for peg-in and peg-out or something similar. Example is the opening and closing of a channel through the liquid network, or buying inbound liquidity which some wallets can offer.

Most importantly know that custodial lightning wallets are the worst. It is not your key which means it is not your coin. I do not use custodial lightning wallets but using this medium to let you just know about there existence. This post is not about their recommendation and I will not list any of them among the lightning wallet that I will list here. Do your own research to know about them.

Among all, the best to trust more is the trustless solution which is through the bitcoin on-chain opening and closing of channel which does not depend on intermediaries. But yet, use lightning network with small amount of money. If you are not spending your coins for a long time, use cold wallet instead.

Importance of lightning wallets:

After channel opening, low fee can be used for lightning transactions which can be good for daily or frequent transactions. Transaction confirmation time is very fast which is just a matter of few seconds.




Lists of open-source bitcoin lightning wallets


Name: Phoenix
Supported OS: Android and iOS
GitHub repository: both Android and iOS here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: On-chain
Newbies friendly: Yes
Backup: 12 words seed phrase backup is important
Tor: Inbuilt
Launch date: 2019

Name: Zeus
Supported OS: Android and iOS
GitHub repository: both Android and iOS here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: On-chain
Newbies friendly: Yes
Backup: 24 words seed phrase backup is important
Tor: No
Launch date: 2019

Name: Aqua
Supported OS: Android and iOS
GitHub repository: both Android and iOS here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: Liquid
Newbies friendly: Yes
Backup: 12 words seed phrase is important for backup
Tor: No
Launch date: January 3rd, 2024

Name: Muun
Supported OS: Supported OS: Android and iOS
GitHub repository: Android l iOS
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: On-chain
Newbies friendly: Yes
Seed phrase backup: No
Backup: 18 characters (upper case and number) backup or using email backup
Tor: No
Launch date: 2019

Name: Mutiny
Supported OS: Android, iOS and Browser
GitHub repository: here
Type: Noncustodial
Category: On-chain
Newbies friendly: Yes
Backup:
Tor: No
Launch date: 2023

Name: Electrum
Supported OS: click here
Warning: Experimental
GitHub repository: Click here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: On-chain
Newbies friendly: No
Backup: Wallet file. 12 word seed phrase may be important to force close a channel
Tor: Yes (manual connection via Tor application)
Launch date: July 3, 2020 (Version 4.0.1)

Name: Bluewallet
Supported OS: Android,iOS and macOS
GitHub repository: both Android and iOS here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: On-chain
Newbies friendly: Node connection required
Tor: Removed
Backup: x

Launch date: 2019

Name: Blixt
Supported OS: Android and iOS
GitHub repository: both Android and iOS here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: On-chain
Newbies friendly: Node connection required
Backup:
Tor: Inbuilt
Launch date: 2022

Name: BTCitbanana
Supported OS: Android and F-Driod
GitHub repository: both Android and iOS here
Type: Noncustodial
Category: On-chain
Newbies friendly: Node connection required
Backup:
Tor: Yes
Launch date: 2023

Name: Breez
Supported OS: Android and iOS
Warning: Beta
GitHub repository: both Android and iOS here
Type: Noncustodial
Channel: I do not know if it is truly noncustodial
Newbies friendly: Yes
Seed phrase backup: No
Backup: Google/iCloud (not good) or Remote server (I prefer seed phrase and wallet file but not included)
Tor: Yes
Launch date: 2019


It is good to know that close source lightning wallets are not listed, also that custodial lightning network wallets are not included. The wallets that required users to open and close channels, or connecting your own nodes for node runners are the ones I listed.

Old thread: Open-source Lightning wallets

Hugeblack posted that he is too busy to updated the old thread that was last edited in 2020. Thanks to him for giving me the opportunity to come up with this thread. Thanks to dkbit98 for the information I got about Aqua wallet. I did not contact him but his post about the wallet was useful. I saw his post on Bitcointalk. Thanks to DaveF for the information he provided about BTCitbanana on Hugeblack's old thread. Thanks to FinneysTrueVision for pointing to Aqua wallet. It was him that actually let me make research about the wallet before I saw bdkbit98 post about it. About its second wallet that he mentioned, Marina, I will still do research on it but it looks like a browse extension wallet which makes me not to research about it further for now. More wallets will later be added.


More will be added. You can suggest the ones you know.



Helpful links for beginners to know what lightning network is:

A Beginner's guideline to Bitcoin Lightning Network
Basics of the Lightning Network
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network#:~:text=The%20Lightning%20Network%20(LN)%20is,to%20the%20bitcoin%20scalability%20problem.
https://medium.com/coinmonks/getting-started-with-bitcoin-lightning-network-5cd57e218463
https://tara-annison.medium.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-lightning-network-aa2f7f9c6c31
The Lightning Network FAQ
The Lightning Network node experience
Lightning Network Observer
136  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: April 28, 2024, 04:22:51 PM
Manchester City's great performance against Forest today will ensure they win and collect the three points. hink Arsenal and Manchester City are more excited about.
Manchester City is playing with a club that is not strong and I am also expecting Manchester City to win. First half is almost gone and Manchester City is winning with 1 goal already scored by J. Gvardiol with the assist of K. De Bruyne. We are still expecting more goals. By the way, Arsenal has already won Tottenham which we know it is going to be a tough match but Arsenal trashed Tottenham 3 goals in the first half but Tottenham was not able to equalize in second half but scored 2.
137  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are Nassim Taleb's ideas useful in gambling? on: April 28, 2024, 04:12:37 PM
Great to hear that. I think that only means that gambling is not your passion. The one that you read about gambling fund is found in the forum? Because I also read one here before and yes, it exactly says 1%. For the people who says gambling is life, they can't find value in their game if they also use a low amount of money.
I can say gambling is not that my passion or maybe I should use the world 'hobby' because I still like to gamble at times especially during the weekends when I have nothing to do and also when I am around my friends we can talk about gambling and gamble on a gambling site. I read about 1% to be used for gambling on a football prediction site but it has been long and I do not remember the prediction site that I read it from as I have many prediction sites in the past that I check for prediction before betting.
138  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Blackjack.fun ⚽ Predict EPL Round 36 Total Goals 🏆 Prize $50 (May 03-06) on: April 28, 2024, 10:36:11 AM
Total Goals: 36
139  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: [List] Open-source Lightning wallets on: April 28, 2024, 08:33:04 AM
That list has not been updated since 2020, and I do not have time to update it. If there is someone who has time and can continue to update it, I will support him. I will lock this topic within 48 hours.
I have interest to know more about the lightning network wallets recently and it will be my pleasure to begin new thread about it and be updating it.
140  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: [List] Open-source Lightning wallets on: April 28, 2024, 07:55:18 AM
I also just noticed that Electrum is not among the wallet mentioned. Electrum can be used for lightning payment. It is noncustodial.

If Muun is considered a lightning wallet then Aqua and Marina are also lightning wallets. They are all using swaps to make lightning payments but the difference is Muun uses on-chain BTC while the others use Liquid BTC.
Liquid network is different from lightning network. If there is no channel created by individual or the people that are providing the wallet service, that means it is not a lightning network.
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