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Phoenix is a Bitcoin wallet developed by ACINQ, that allows you to send and receive bitcoins securely over the Lightning Network. It is self-custodial, which means that you hold the keys of the wallet. It provides a simple and clean UX. Thanks to native Lightning support, payments are faster and cheaper. This wallet is self-custodial. It means that, when creating a new wallet, a 12-words recovery phrase is generated. Only you have it. It is your responsibility to make a backup of that recovery phrase. It gives full access to your funds, so do not share it with anyone. If you lose the recovery phrase, your funds are lost.

...The Lightning Network is an off-chain, routed payment channel network built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. The network consists of nodes connected by peer-to-peer channels. This allows low cost, near-instant payments to be trustlessly routed across the network via connected nodes. On top of complying with all BOLT standards, c-lightning is developing an architecture for plugins. Plugins can be built to extend the c-lightning command line API. There are a number of developer tools, libraries and plugins that exist for the c-lightning implementation.

Metrocoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Metrocoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Metrocoin is also the name of the open source software which enables the use of this currency.