the fact that it is on that russian spyware app telegram is a big fat no no
The LightingTipBot is really the Bitcoin/Nostr onboarding way:
1) Join the bot https://t.me/LightningTipBot to immediately obtain a (custodial) LN wallet with a LN that match your username (xxx@ln.tips) and an anonymous one useful if you don't want dox yourself; put it in you Nostr profile.
2) Use the "/nostr add" command to link your pubkey and start to register the zaps attached to every post; the bot also notifies every zap with the sender message.
3) Use the "/link" command to get the private lndhub URL; with this you can configure Alby (browser extension) and Bluewallet (Android/IOS/macOS) to have a unique wallet across all devices for an integrated experience.
4) Zap and receive zaps ⚡ and start to think the bitcoin v4v way; if you are a creator you have huge opportunities.
5) Bonus point: tip friends on Telegram and propose them to embrace Bitcoin/Nostr.
Objections:
Why use a Telegram bot instead of go all-in with Nostr?
Simply because a similar bot doesn't still exist for Nostr, even if I'm quite sure #[0] is working on something 👀
Then Telegram attracts people that already realize that there are a lot of possibilities, and quality ones, outside the small fake-golden Meta garden, so it is a perfect place to onboard new aware users.
Plus the bot and lndhub are open source.
Why a custodial wallet?
Today custodial LN is quite hard to start, we have great projects like OBW and Blixt that already permit it, but it's an harder step for a newcomer. To experience the coffee-zapb magic a custodial solution is reasonable. Don't let the perfection kill the excellency.
Shout-out to #[1] to have built it! 🙌⚡
Discussion
If Russia is interested in your coffee tips you should be a really important person, so you surely have the motivation and the resources to go non custodial :)
When you have a minute please prove "the fact", thanks!
the fact being that the only encryption on telegram is https and on their servers
“you dont need e2ee bcs u aint important” isnt really great point to debate
https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple
As said at the end of my post: don't let the perfection kill the excellency.
If you and you friends are comfortable with a full non custodial path that's wonderful. Please share the details after the Telegram critic so everyone can learn and choose.
A personal view: I chose to use the proposed solution to support Calle's work and to have a separate easy wallet for tips/zaps so I don't flood the main one history.