For real and it's painful to see.
I'm fine with being a wet blanket on nostr when it comes to this stuff. I'm in bitcoin for self-sovereignty reasons so I'll continue to be annoying about custody and privacy.
I expect there to be a gradient of self-custody in a number of people's toolkits right now. When lightning was less reliable a few years ago, I've had to fall back on strike bc Tor was slow or I couldn't find a route.
I'm concerned about how bitcoiners choose to address existing gaps in self-custody. Just seeing how cheerfully people are flooding into custodial wallets is kind of disappointing. If you're gonna use a custodial solution, at least feel bad about it as a bitcoiner 😂
I'm using zaps to highlight a broader issue with the current culture around lightning where self-sovereignty and privacy seem to be secondary concerns for bitcoiners. The number of bitcoiners using custodial lightning outside the context of nostr is fucking bananas
Just opened one at 800k sats. Should be good for some zaps haha
I'm not talking about just zaps/nostr, but using it to highlight a broader issue.
Dude yes. I find it extremely rewarding despite hiccups here and there.
Sure what's your pubkey
**Bitcoiners should do the work and figure out self-custodied lightning.** Yes, even for pocket change. Yes, even if it means you can't see zaps.
If normies or casuals end up using custodial solutions, that sucks, but it's entirely predictable. But if you are all-in on the ethos of bitcoin as a tool that enables self-sovereign control over money, then help us keep the culture alive.
Lightning has a lot of issues and the direction of how this ecosystem plays out is in a bit of a precarious state. The barrier to entry for running and managing a lightning node is high. I get it. But if the most hardcore bitcoiners aren't willing to forgo trusted third party intermediaries, then we're sowing the seeds for lightning to become a network of centralized, trusted service providers from top to bottom.
If there's no demand from bitcoiners for improved self-custody UX, then people aren't going to build solutions. Every bitcoiner who chooses to sacrifice self-sovereignty for convenience is ever so slightly tipping the scales towards a culture that favors such expediency.
I don't think this is hyperbole. Lightning is super early and this is precisely the time to set a strong cultural foundation because it will only get worse over time as we've seen with on-chain bitcoin.
If an idiot like me can do the work and figure it out, you can too.
We thought he couldn't be bought but he's in the pocket of Big Sahil. Sad!
Last month I speculated (or warned) that nostr clients will someday integrate custodial lightning wallets to smooth out the UX for non-bitcoiners. I guess this is happening sooner than later.
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Bitcoin Takeover 2023 in Austin LFG
We need tribunals for our own government first
It's a popular noob pod and it seems kinda bad to have a guy like that on
Weird this guy's still getting put out there as someone to listen to on the topic of bitcoin
Jfc let this week end already
