orangepillapp on Nostr: We've spent 100 hours studying every #bitcoin wallets out there and we believe we've ...
We've spent 100 hours studying every #bitcoin wallets out there and we believe we've built the ultimate Lighting Wallet ⚡️
Here are some design choices you might find surprising:
1. LIGHTING-ONLY
The Lightning Network is ready. We've run 10k test transactions with a 0% failure rate—it just works. Meanwhile, on-chain transactions are slow, require manual fee selection, and can take hours to confirm. From a UX perspective, on-chain is broken for everyday payments.
2. SATS ARE THE STANDARD
You won’t find the word “Bitcoin” anywhere in our wallet. This is intentional, Apple & Google might change their guidelines at any point, and because 1,000 sats is intuitive, while 0.000001 BTC is not.
3. CUSTODIAL
Here's something that completely surprised me: 80% of our users have never made a Lightning transaction, let alone managed their own keys. By going custodial, we eliminate friction—every user gets a Lightning address that just works. No invoice expirations, no complex setup. A Bitcoin wallet should be as easy as Venmo or Apple Pay.
4. NO FIAT CONVERSION
We operate on a Bitcoin Standard. Your bank doesn’t show your USD balance in gold or Bitcoin—why should we? The world needs to start thinking in Sats.
5. GEO-ZAPPING
Soon we will introduce the ability to zap everyone in a Country or a City, something that no other wallet can do. This should unlock novel use cases for marketing and donations, think sending sats to everybody affected by a natural disaster with just one click.
Bitcoin wins when it's everywhere, Roy Sheinfeld once said "we don't need more lighting apps, we need more apps using lighting". We have now onboarded ~40k people to the LN overnight without them needing to download an extra app or doing anything else.
If you give it a try, we would love to hear your thoughts in the replies. 🙏
Onward & Forward 🤙
Here are some design choices you might find surprising:
1. LIGHTING-ONLY
The Lightning Network is ready. We've run 10k test transactions with a 0% failure rate—it just works. Meanwhile, on-chain transactions are slow, require manual fee selection, and can take hours to confirm. From a UX perspective, on-chain is broken for everyday payments.
2. SATS ARE THE STANDARD
You won’t find the word “Bitcoin” anywhere in our wallet. This is intentional, Apple & Google might change their guidelines at any point, and because 1,000 sats is intuitive, while 0.000001 BTC is not.
3. CUSTODIAL
Here's something that completely surprised me: 80% of our users have never made a Lightning transaction, let alone managed their own keys. By going custodial, we eliminate friction—every user gets a Lightning address that just works. No invoice expirations, no complex setup. A Bitcoin wallet should be as easy as Venmo or Apple Pay.
4. NO FIAT CONVERSION
We operate on a Bitcoin Standard. Your bank doesn’t show your USD balance in gold or Bitcoin—why should we? The world needs to start thinking in Sats.
5. GEO-ZAPPING
Soon we will introduce the ability to zap everyone in a Country or a City, something that no other wallet can do. This should unlock novel use cases for marketing and donations, think sending sats to everybody affected by a natural disaster with just one click.
Bitcoin wins when it's everywhere, Roy Sheinfeld once said "we don't need more lighting apps, we need more apps using lighting". We have now onboarded ~40k people to the LN overnight without them needing to download an extra app or doing anything else.
If you give it a try, we would love to hear your thoughts in the replies. 🙏
Onward & Forward 🤙