I just onboarded my Vietnamese tour guide with WoS - he’s been speculating on FX and meme stonks and now has a few hundred thousand Sats that I’ve told him to just hold for 1 year and see.
You think I would have been better off getting him to go home and spin up a node?
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. People have to learn to walk before they can run and Maxis being all pious about custody ain’t helping.
This is not good. Teaching people to trade PayPal for Wallet of Satoshi is not a step in the right direction. Its a step backwards.
A step in the right direction would be getting them to set up a non-lightning wallet that at least isnt custodial. First step: edit the banking system. Next steps: learn lightning.
The community has a toxic mentality of pushing lightning by all means, even if it ends up building Banks2.0 on lightning
So going from “I’ve heard of Bitcoin, it’s gone down right?” -to- “I’m going to look into this” now that he has a few hundred thousands Sats “is a step backwards”.
People like you would be commissars in another time and place.
