Jack, good to see you evaluating options. Do you really see a broad user base work with keypairs etc., though?
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definitely. UX can always be made more accessible over time. Look at how Bitcoin has evolved…
It is great sites are adopting logging in with lightning and keypairs. It is very secure. We will just need good tools to store those keypairs.
I would argue that Bitcoin is not „used“ by a broad user base, though. It is bought on exchanges and speculated with on an exchange‘s trading UI.
Might be wrong here but my observation is that non-tech people don‘t care about crypto(graphy) and it‘s technology
today, but it’s come a long way. Latin America and Africa are very different.
Chivo botched it in El Salvador in my opinion. Most people get on-boarded via Chivo which is custodial and then it just doesn't work.
I'm guilty myself. In a taxi with 3 Bitcoin Maxis we agreed to get our driver to install Chivo for the $2 to avoid the hassle of opening channels or making backups. Ended up awkwardly paying the poor guy ... I don't remember ... $6 in Chivo and $2 in cash as Chivo didn't work. Worst orange-pilling ever.
Other than that, half of the businesses that did accept Bitcoin even at Bitcoin Beach stopped doing so. Probably due to Crypto Winter.
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have you tried Bitkit, @jack?
why should I use bitkit over zeus with my own node? what's the advantage? I know synonym is working on some innovative stuff
talked to John last week about this, he goes in depth about everything https://share.transistor.fm/s/17f637a8
cool, thanks!
LN is just one aspect of Bitkit; that said, I wouldn’t recommend it as a replacement of Zeus paired to your node, I’d recommend it instead of Bluewallet/WOS or any other custodial LN wallet
why should anyone use Bitkit instead of Breez, OBW, or any other existing solution? did I miss smth?