Hear me out- nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q is one of the smoothest and clean mobile clients on #nostr !
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And they set you up with a starter wallet during onboarding. Great client, it’s come a long way in the past year.
I’m against custodial wallets inside the clients. But other than that they realy building the top client ! I’m impressed!
I agree on principle but given that this is an Alby Hub instance run by Yakihonne with no incentive to rug anyone, it’s a great way for a new user to bootstrap until they can upgrade to a fully self custodial NWC wallet.
You can’t say “no incentives to rug”. There is always such incentive until you hodl your own key! It’s easy to set up nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 or Phoenix wallet nowadays and receive/zap from there.
As a Nostr client, if they became a bad actor and drained everyone’s accounts, they would face the wrath of the entire community. So perhaps I should rephrase it to "little incentive to rug." The same level of incentive as Primal, for example.
And for a brand new user with no Nostr or bitcoin experience, asking them to download and set up a completely different app alongside their client is simply too much. Curious to know if you have ever actually tried to onboard people in person. It's an eye-opener.
Those clients who would want to rug clearly don’t care about the community or the people they woudl take advantage. Yes, I’ve onboarded users to nostr without any issues, they weren’t interested in sending zaps. Nostr community and its clients should not pressure users into adopting bitcoin. My take is better to avoid custodial wallets and don’t use lightning at all vs loose your sats.
This is where it definitely helps to know the people behind the client. I've met the Yakihonne team on multiple occasions, so they have my vote of confidence. The thing I always tell anyone is never put all of your sats into a single place, and learn how to transfer out of wallets used for zapping to wallets used for HODLing.
Covered that in my book like this:
I might revise that downward. A month is a lot. Maybe two weeks, max.
Yeah, definitely depends on your comforts, your stacks, and what you’re actively doing with it at any given time. Based it on income to make it relative to the person reading. This seemed to match the risk levels acceptably.
