A friend wants to invest in Bitcoin, so I wanted to try out some wallets. I thought I'd give the Blockstream (nprofile…vk3k) app (aka Green) a try as it's the top player in Bitcoin development.
My sats were in blitz (npub1cm3…96wt), but it's a bit too early to be really usable. Lightning payments were broken, so I had to get my money out using Spark - which worked fine. The only other Spark wallet I could find was xverseapp (nprofile…tyh5) (a Chrome extension + mobile app) so I got sats out using that.
I tried to transfer sats into the Blockstream app using Lightning, but, to my surprise, the payment went through as mainnet. I wasn't bothered as the fee was cheap.
I then realised that the Blockstream app doesn't support Lightning out of the box. It's an "experimental feature" that you have to enable in settings - except that feature wasn't there. 🤯
I gave up and did a mainnet transction into Misty Breez_tech (nprofile…fa7r) - a reliable mobile wallet that supports mainnet, liquid and lightning with no fuss.
I might try Xverse again another time as that did the job too.
Iain Cheyne
npub1l4…srlwg
2025-09-04 13:18:15 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1l4qknnrjzd8pfj6d4pd93jmur77zjexfgwpnlszth5k73a68nyxq2srlwgPublished at
2025-09-04 13:18:15 UTCEvent JSON
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