the primal wallet is able to hold a maximum of 1M sats. it's not an incredible amount of money. it's just a spending wallet.

i think that they're filling a niche of users that want to use nostr, use zaps, and need to buy bitcoin to do so. i met 3 of these users in person at nostriga. they told me they were not bitcoiners and needed bitcoin for zaps and had no clue how to get it. primal solves this problem for them.

i believe the vast majority of people don't care about some of these things that you may care about. most people use centralized exchanges, right? if we want people to not kyc and use decentralized solutions then those solutions need to have a better user experience. that's just the world as it is now, man. not everyone is super technical.

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In four years or less this amount will buy a really nice car.

I have no issue with a small value custodial spending wallet.

I think most should get onboard with a cashu wallet and earn some sats by noting some value. Then at 100k sats open a self custodial LN channel with Zeus.

The long term implications of buying kyc and spending bitcoin without reporting could be a problem for these users who aren't being informed about what they are doing or some of the incentives at play convincing them to do so.

I am not a technical person either. I am just critical.

you're more technical than you believe. most of the world will not be using cashu in it's current form. you're ahead of the pack here.

again i do agree that more notice in the onboarding process should be available to users.

I have done my homework but I can't even edit an env. file to save my life lol!

Meanwhile take a moment to look at the settings page of cashu.me

Then think of how this works with nostur reaction buttons and nwc

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haha. most people don't even know the nostur hack to enable zaps lol. see this is what im talking about. things are too damn complicated because not everyone wants to deal with apple's bullshit.

But the work around is so much more fun than kyc!

Nostur zaps hit so different 🌩️🌩️🌩️ its awesome!

Plus that solution I just pointed out, gives you a free LN address and zaps auto redeem from npub.cash right into cashu.me wallet plus let you zap in nostur via nwc to cashu.me

i think you're probably overestimating people's willingness to go through all of these hurdles and im probably underestimating it by some as well.

Great conversation! Thank you both. 🫡