Gfy telling me I can't recommend or use a custodial service.

Do I think it is the best place (or even a good idea) to store anything more than you're comfortable losing there? No, of course not. And I will tell you that at the same time I'm zapping you a few sats.

When you start down a rabbit hole, you start at the top of the funnel. This isn't Pitfall, where you just fall down to the bottom of the hole. The top of that funnel needs to be wide, and gradually open up deeper and deeper.

Even those of us who have been in the rabbit hole for a long time won't agree with a perfect solution. Telling a novice to buy a hardware wallet, then they find out a month or 3 later they should have bought a coldcard, then someone says no, coldcard isn't foss, build a seedsigner? This is a problem.

I'm not going to tell my friend or my local shop owner to go build or buy a node so they can experience Bitcoin and Lightning. I'm going to find the easiest and quickest route possible to transfer them some value in the form of sats, and show them how they can pass that value on to others. If they choose to store that value, that can be a different discussion.

So if this is my ticket off the toxic train, so be it. Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.