Blixt Wallet is back and we have a lot of exciting news!
Here are the highlights:
Translations - 9 new languages
Blixt Wallet now supports other languages than English and we're starting with these 9 new languages:
Dutch, French, German, Klingon, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese.
You can change language in Blixt Wallet by going to Settings -> Language
.
Do you want contribute to a language or help translate a new one?
Head over to our Transifex project: https://transifex.com/blixt-wallet.
macOS port
Blixt Wallet is now available for macOS!
Blixt Wallet joins as one of the few Lightning wallets for the desktop.
First out is macOS and we plan to develop Windows and Linux builds too.
How to install:
Use the normal Blixt Wallet TestFlight link, but on your Mac.
Make sure you have the TestFlight app installed.
FAQ, Guides and Feature page on the website
We have a lot of new content over at the Blixt Wallet website that covers Frequently Asked Questions as well as guides for common concerns and use-cases.
Head over to https://blixtwallet.github.io to see them!
Taproot support
You can now receive and send to Taproot addresses.
To receive to a Taproot address, enable Settings -> Enable receiving on-chain via Taproot (P2TR)
. Sending to a Taproot address will always be possible to do.
Blixt will also automatically use Taproot addresses for all change when sending on-chain and when a channel is closed.
Full changelog:
- Updated to lnd 0.15.4. This includes an important sync fix.
- Added translations for 9 new languages! Dutch, French, German, Klingon, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese.
- Blixt is now available for macOS! Make sure you have TestFlight installed on your Mac, then head over to the TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/EXvGhRzS
- Added
sats
as a Bitcoin unit. Newly created wallets will use thesats
unit by default - Added support to receive by Taproot (P2TR)
- It's now possible to connect to Bitcoin nodes running under Tor onion v3 services
- Maximum lightning payment fee is now 2% of total invoice amount or 10 sats, whichever is higher. This will be user configurable in the future
- Added the ability to change Bitcoin sync node before creating/restoring wallet
- Fixed a bug where exporting channel backup would crash on iPads
- Fixed a bug where long LNURL codes (greater than 1024 characters) would fail to be decoded
- Fixed a bug where BIP21
lightning
param would not work if it's the first parameter of many - Fixed a bug where verifying a channel backup on iOS would not work
- Fixed a bug where restoring/verifying channel backup would not work if the path contains a whitespace
- Fixed a bug where white space in the beginning or end of the seed box would cause a wallet restoration to fail
- Added the ability to go back from the backup screen
- Clipboard invoice checking is not disabled by default for iOS
- Added support for channel "alias scid" feature enabling more private channels. These channels are tagged by an "alias scid" text in the channel list
- Added FAQ button to Help modal
- Disabled autocomplete for seed box when restoring a wallet
- Added "Get node info" and "Get channel info" debug functions to the Debug section in Settings
- Removed a constraints on how large invoices can be
Contributors
- Hampus Sjöberg
- Julian Angel
- Darthcoin
- Eternalkr
- Nitesh
- wae_38
- Bitcoin_Gamer_21
- softsimon
- Future Travel
- Brandon Holm
- Kote
- Osito
- bitcoinclub
- Bliquidated
- Einzie
- Noé López
- bitpaint
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