v5.5.2 - Ground Control

To Major Tom

Today we are releasing BlueWallet v5.5.2 and it brings 2 features that I would like to introduce and give a little walk through.

1. Push notifications

To make push notifications possible we develop a new Free and Open Source service called “Ground Control”.

Ground Control is a notifications center for Bitcoin wallets, that you will be able to run in a self-hosted fashion to not be depend on BlueWallet’s server.

It supports Bitcoin and LNDhub, receive transactions, pending and confirmed onchain transactions. It processes blocks and a mempool in search of subscribed onchain addresses in order to provide notifications for users. Built with typescript, expressjs, mariadb & openapi.

You can also easily setup your own Ground Control server, and have a more privacy-aware push notifications setup.

See more here:
https://github.com/BlueWallet/GroundControl

2. LNurl-pay

Services that support LNurl-Pay (like @bitrefill) allow you to pay or easily repeat a payment without you having to open this service or ask to generate an invoice. Think about it as a UX improvement for Lightning.

LNurl-Pay can have some interesting use cases in the future, and going towards a more mobile-friendly type of interaction. For instance:

  • Donation sites
  • Restaurant menus
  • Pricing tags in market shelves
  • Bike/scooter-sharing services and other indie stuff
  • Any site that wants to accept payments

Changelog v5.5.2

ADD: push notifications
ADD: lnurl-pay support
ADD: HodlHodl logout button
ADD: Keychain clear if password is lost
ADD: screen/wallets/details transactions count
FIX: crashes after importing malformed xpub as watch-only
FIX: Restore Change unit on balance tap
FIX: When doing max amount, some scenarios would return invalid amount
FIX: missing text on sendMAX dialog box confirmation
FIX: Invoice creation darkmode
FIX: Font-Color in Input Field “transaction notes”

Keep building! 💙 👊

We are a Bitcoin collective trying to help on how to bring Bitcoin to the people and the people to Bitcoin, through beautifully crafted open source software. How can you help?

  • Are you a developer? Here is the place.
  • Not a developer. Give us a review on the app stores, that helps immensely. Join our beta access and help us test and bug fix. Provide feedback.
  • Are you a Bitcoin OG and you believe in what we are building? Drop me a line (n@bluewallet.io).

Thank you for reading and any feedback, comments, thoughts and violent reactions, I’m all yours. See you around!


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