Idk if people are ready for this, but I believe the world is. First tests of USD Ecash. Backed by BTC.
Everyone can run a mint. Everyone can make a wallet. USD can be spent everywhere BTC is accepted. Open protocols all the way down. No gatekeepers. This is only possible because of the permissionless nature of Bitcoin.
You'll zap USD on Nostr and you'll be happy. It's going to be so insane.
https://video.nostr.build/2bd2bd63fbd4c77d64d5f8a2a1cab6ccbea48c541c96be2f28fa5e57276be872.mp4
WTF was that QR code that you have to keep scanning? Looks like an accessibility nightmare that's only going to work on a modern smartphone.
That cluttered UI with all the buttons is information overload!
And the animations, I'm cringing so hard. God I hate modern tech stacks.
p.s. I have ADHD I was anxiously clicking/watching and I zapped by accident
#MakeBitcoinSimpleAgain
Animated QR allow for more information (or better EC, or both).
They're weird to us but no problem for a camera that refreshes dozens of times per second.
But yes you can't take a screenshot and copypasta.
I brought up that issue specifically because I don't think it's going to work on lower end phones. For 7+ years I lived with a shitty hand-me-down android phone that not a single lightning wallet would run on. If it somehow could load the app, there's no way it's camera would have the framerate to read this animated QR code. If Bitcoin is for rich people then fine, it's a non-issue, but if Bitcoin is supposed to scale to serve all the people of the world, this app is flawed.
Oh for sure; this is bleeding-edge. Final product would obscure away most of this, and by then, everyone will have a decent phone. Wealth may not trickle down, but tech does.
Africa has #machankura , custodial lightning, fedimint, etc.
Also, animated QR is not the only way to use it; it's just information, so the string could be copied, sent over NFC, whatever.
