When I was running nodeless, it shocked me quite a bit to see most regular businesses were turned off by a no-kyc, unregulated payment processor. It was pretty demoralizing, that what I thought was our best feature, turned out to be a detractor. In addition to ultimately getting us in trouble with fintrac.

If I had built a non custodial zap wallet and everyone continued to use custodians, I'd feel the same way.

But ultimately the lesson I took away from this was, we need to stop building products for each other based on what is said in the bitcoin echo chamber.

We need to build Bitcoin products that are easy to use and understand for normies, even if that means making trade off that we (Bitcoin psychopaths) may find offensive - like custodians and KYC.

This is my current thesis, anyway. Maybe the market is about to teach me another hard lesson.