When you send 1,000 or 1,000,000 sats on lightning to your bar man or old lady at the grocery store (especially when using some custodial app), this isn’t “on-boarding”.

You’re just giving someone free money with no responsibility.

You have to show them on-chain layer one, and not just how to receive, but also how to send, how to save a seed phrase, and how to generate a new wallet.

Otherwise, they have no broader understand of what Bitcoin does.

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While I agree self-custody is vital (and I'd usually recommend a user friendly non-custodial LN wallet like Phoenix for a noob) lightning is a fast, easy to use introduction to Bitcoin so I still count that as onboarding.

If they wanna hodl then teach about cold storage on the L1, but most people will use LN to make BTC payments in the future.