one day I will give up and finish building cln-hub to host a custodial lightning wallet for damus users. the nwc alternatives for new folks are just not good.
Discussion
Could it still be private even if it’s custodial?
Some clients require name, age, email, country and state of residence, which I’m not a fan of
yeah, all you would need is a random token which would be your account id
What about the ecash wallet that has a unified balance across clients that nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft is working on?
Damus uses lightning not ecash
mainly because it already took tons of effort just to get lightning and nostr working, and adding an entire new set of primitives for dubious privacy gain isn’t super worth it for us. People wouldn’t even end up using the privacy features of ecash on nostr, you end up zapping the amount publicly anyways.
I think custodial lightning hubs work fine for nostr usecases and are simpler. Also the complexity of managing many different tokens across many different mints gets crazy fast. KISS.
phoenixd w/ nwc, lnaddress and zap support (my satdress fork) is about the quickest and simple setup I've been able to do for self-custodial, and it's still not that simple. A hosted service could automate much of the setup and customers could still be able to hold the private keys.
I think you sound give nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9‘s custodial lightning wallet offering a shot. Let me know if you want to chat.