Onboarded my mom to Nostr today.

Or… at least I tried😅

She has zero Bitcoin background, zero clue what decentralization means, and asking her to manage a private key was already a mountain to climb. ("Wait… what do I do if I lose this password?… 🤯)

After 1.5 hours, we ended up writing the nsec on a piece of paper. She is taking a well-deserved break now. Bless her.

The hardest part?

Self-custody and taking full responsibility for your keys is scary when you have lived your whole life with banks, password resets and someone to call when things go wrong.

Explaining value-for-value and zapping when you come from a lifetime of centralized platforms and like-slavery.

Also: she doesn’t speak English so even the app settings were confusing.

But I’m sure we are getting there as she always questioned the system and the government and is looking for ways and tools to get information!

Mom, I love you so much. We’ll get there.