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I will not understand Bitcoiners that in 2023 onboarding newcomers to the custodial wallets and their claims are “because it’s easier” sorry but do more work to explain self custody and onboard ! There are trade offs in self custody on lightning but I would choose these trade offs vs custodial wallets!
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nostrnaut 2y ago

from a UX perspective, as someone who produces/maintains technical documentation, customers of a product or service (especially one that’s novel to them) simply won’t start out by digesting all the detailed minutia listed in the “Best Practices”

it’s best to treat lightning like pocket change that’s loose in your back pocket

inter-generational #butcoin should never touch the lightning network, nevermind the argument of whether it’s in custodial/non-custodial

- if we see newcomers express the attention and interest in learning the nuance as they get to grips with sending/receiving #zaps, I agree that non-custodial education is important

for on-boarding your typical normie with <$5 of sats, you’re going lose their attention

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nostrnaut 2y ago

“#butcoin”

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EddieOz ⚡ 2y ago

Adam, I think that's the point.

I use the argument that we can introduce it and then show how to improve it.

It is hard enough for a new user to handle private keys and etc... then, in my personal scale and considering the final goal for every bitcoiner is to mine their own btc to avoid kyc'd (ok, hard, but stills).

So:

1) introduce through lightning network and having the smooth experience of fast and cheap

2) understanding more deep economic concepts

3) understanding the importance to handle their own wallets and auto-custody

4) Withdraw from exchanges to cold/hardware wallets

5) Understanding more deep tech concepts

6) Running btc and ln nodes

7) Mining (even with a nerd miner)

The education about Bitcoin is harder than other topics because there are a bunch of dense layers. And for the user who never had contact with it, I start from the highest/easy level.