Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

I like to tell this story when I talk about the Nostr Plebs humble beginnings and how my eyes were opened with where Bitcoin is at when it comes to Lightning adoption.

The amount of Bitcoiners that message me asking how to pay the Lightning invoice to register their Nostr address, that they never used lightning before, that they had a Lightning node, but never opened up any channels, or that they had channels opened, but never made a transaction, or that they were unfamiliar with Lightning completely. I was shocked. How could Bitcoiners not know about or even use Lightning? πŸ‘€

Lightning has a bit of a marketing problem or maybe it has an adoption problem or a combination of both. 🀯

When it comes to managing your Lightning, node, liquidity management and channel management is hard. It's not fun. It's kind of a pain in the ass. I believe this will get better over time. It's already gotten better in the two and a half years that I've been running a Lightning node. 🀝

Custodial solutions are getting much easier as well. While many people may not be fans of custodial solutions, it's a misconception to believe that every person in the world will do this on their own. Do you maintain every single aspect of your house? Your car? Your electronics? No. Service providers exist for dozens of industries. Bitcoin will be no different. Stop custody shaming.

Is Lightning adoption where I wish it was at? Nope. However, we're working on it here. We're making Lightning fun and easy to use with zaps. We're making Lightning easy and frictionless.

I also truly believe that the Bitcoin communities around the world will push Lightning adoption. From Africa to Latin America to Southeast Asia, Lightning transactions are how they use Bitcoin. They don't use on-chain.

Keep building. Keep educating. It's a slow process, but we're on the right path.

Lightning has a UI UX problem. You've gotta be very very technically inclined to set up your on stuff and development is all over the place. We need more apps that look and feel as good as nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 to onboard new users.

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The best UI and UX by far is Wallet of Satoshi. Zeus is getting better and I use it daily, but some of the text fields look like crap and cut off my text.

Agree that not everyone in the world will run their own lightning node..!

WOS is custodial and Zeus is non custodial.. Current Wallet is a Nostr home grown lightning wallet that now supports Wallet connect..!

Wow,

Any chance you could publish this wallet with basic docs on how to run and support it?πŸ™πŸ˜

eh; I prefer Muun over WoS, tbh

it’s cleaner, but also I get a little lost in the icon overload when sending/receiving

Isn't WoS custodial only though? idk I've never used it.