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Well, technically, nostr shares them with anyone 😅

Teaching Lightning will be more tough task I guess 😅

However I do agree that it might be actually a good idea to pay for a paid relay to bootstrap them

Any recommendations for onboarding newbies?

Recently I have convinced one friend to join nostr and give a it try, however he does not want to pay for any relays unless he is confident it will be actually useful for him. Unfortunately, he struggles to find interesting content (he is not in Bitcoin). Besides hashtags, what would be your recommendations?

#asknostr

Maybe it is, but I am not interested in camera at all unlike GrapheneOS

I too had very pleasant experience with Samsung, their software is extremely reliable. As for Pixel issues I would like to know more what exactly was broken in your case, I would like to research how common that problem is.

As for Apple aren't they too heavily locked? Don't get me wrong but I would not call Apple as tech-savy user friendly, they seem to not intended for any kind of system-level customizations.

Thing is with pruned node has only handful of latest blocks and is limited in terms of confirming if some old Lightning Network channels are having unspent transactions.

Mine explanation can be not technically correct however, I am not an expert, this is my interpretation of logs and experience from paying LN invoices before and after using unpruned fullnode.

Running pruned Bitcoin node for Lightning was one of the biggest mistake I have made

If being realistic, with point 5 there is an issue if merchant uses custodial solutions to accept Bitcoin - most (if not all) of them involve AML and sometimes even KYC.

Unfortunately, custodial gateways are pretty common.