I am a crypto newbie looking for ways to experience the new techlogy as an average Joe. I stumbled upon Blue Wallet as part of my reddit feed and wanted to explore this wallet and see how user friendly the experience is especially taking into account the ease of use without any configuration changes. This is one of the best experiences I have had with a lighting enabled wallet. If you are someone that also loves to explore new things in this crypto realm head onto the Blue Wallet website or the Google or Apple store and experience the future.
Some feed back from my experience:
- It would be great if I could choose to connect to the test net and get some test BTC to be able to experience the full force of lightning.
- Also a functioning faucet that may give out some free test BTC.
- Stores that let you experience lightning by offering test products so you can interact fully woth the UI.
I guess with BTC being so expensive and limited in supply it's hard to find daucets that will allow people to get even small quantities for free. So a robust test network would be great in gaining feedback from the users that may not have all the technical know how of being able to run their own nodes and wallets.
Any comments and criticism on my spill is welcome and hope this post leads more average Joe's discovering the delights of lightning.
Credit to reddit user u/giulnz for giving me 10 sats and letting me experience my first lighting transaction.
The first one that's posts me a 5 sat invoice to this post will get it as all I have to spare is 10 sats. Small step in letting someone else experience lightning.
If you feel this post would help getting more people on board please help me with some free sats.
https://tippin.me/@project_uwb
Websites:
https://bluewallet.io
I have researched ways of getting some free satoshis and the only place to get any free satoshis is the list below. Note that it's not going to be easy to get some meaningful amount of satoshis in a short time frame but I guess for someone with an internet connection and a smart phone this is probably the best free options.
Free sats but with some cumbersome work. One of may get lucky with the jackpot though!