Animated QR allow for more information (or better EC, or both). They're weird to us but no problem for a camera that refreshes dozens of times per second. But yes you can't take a screenshot and copypasta.

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CJ54 1 year ago
I brought up that issue specifically because I don't think it's going to work on lower end phones. For 7+ years I lived with a shitty hand-me-down android phone that not a single lightning wallet would run on. If it somehow could load the app, there's no way it's camera would have the framerate to read this animated QR code. If Bitcoin is for rich people then fine, it's a non-issue, but if Bitcoin is supposed to scale to serve all the people of the world, this app is flawed.
Oh for sure; this is bleeding-edge. Final product would obscure away most of this, and by then, everyone will have a decent phone. Wealth may not trickle down, but tech does. Africa has #machankura , custodial lightning, fedimint, etc. Also, animated QR is not the only way to use it; it's just information, so the string could be copied, sent over NFC, whatever.