When someone says I onboarded someone to lightning via custodial wallet sorry but you haven’t onboarded anyone to #bitcoin ! Be honest and stop larping!
Discussion
We can disagree on this. I'm less interested on "onboarding" (which implies some kind of end to end process) and consider anything I am doing as just "introducing".
If I make that introduction, and someone wants to take it further, they can ask me questions or ask google, I don't care. I'm not interested in holding their hand through the early stages of their journey, unless they actively want that.
I don't orange pill people, but I will introduce them to bitcoin (the store of value), maybe talk to them about bitcoin (the network) if they have questions, and if they are curious, show them lightning (the network).
If they are curious, I also might show them an opendime. They are really pretty neat.
But this is all just an introduction. Their onboarding is their business, and if they credit me with my inttoduction being the tipping point for them to get interested, great - but I don't really care. I'm not tasked with bringing more people to bitcoin (the network), or wanting them to buy bitcoin (the token).
This isn't a larp. This just exchanging information about interests in my life, and what I do with my spare time. Funny, I used to larp in my spare time. Masquerade. The best time was a campaign we did using the Forum Shops at Caesar's in Vegas.
Yes, I will continue showing people Strike and Alby. I've shown people Blue wallet, but not sure what is happening with that. Never used WOS. Or CashApp for that matter.
Sometimes, an introduction is all it takes.
If you installed someone custodial wallet and sent “sats” you haven’t introduced them to bitcoin because sats on custodial wallets are IOU! Treat it as PayPal
What would you recommend?
What if at the same time you helped them set up seed phrase, on chain with a Jade, sent them some, wiped it and restored it and and then helped them then withdraw what they had on an exchange to that seed?
While also showing them a custodial wallet like WoS for funsies, and said we can get deeper into lightning later... Because that's what I did. But. It's a lot to dump on someone at once.
Maybe I'm still a POS 😂🤷
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