I can't see that results will be very conclusive though. Imagine a very positive outcome for Nostr with say, 10-100M users, 98% of which are not super technically competent. Almost undoubtedly partially-trusted solutions will spring up (even *fully* trusted), somewhat how they did with LN, although that situation got muddied by regulatory pressures. People will be able to choose how much they need to trust those third parties, and it'll depend on how they use Nostr. Still, you for sure have a point. *Any* use of keypairs and signatures that's more widespread is a good thing from my pov. It will be less pressure here (at least less pressure compared with holding bitcoin as *savings*).
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Interesting take too.
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I like lightning payment system and use sats ( small amount bitcoin )for daily daily transactions like this primal wallet , Damus or alby or Satoshi .
It’s really hassle free for daily transaction .
GM! 🍳☕️🚀⚡️In my opinion, to divide satoshis is always a good alyernative: 90%+ self-custody bitcoin node, 5%- in a LN wallet (self-channel if possible) and 5%- in other options.
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I often use lightning for zaps or small payments too… primal, fountain, ZBD and even Muun. None have enough to just break me if rugged but I’d be disappointed. I find value in using all of them
Totally agree that there are a bunch of confounding variables that limit correlation. However, I think every other proxy we've had for personal key management has failed to achieve popular use: PGP, personal browser certificates, years of DID attempts, etc. So the default assumption at this point might need to be that everyday people can't or won't manage their own keys. Accepting that assumption would have a significant effect on either _how_ we build Bitcoin software or _who_ we build it for. If, instead, we want to continue to build for an anticipated highly self custodied future, it would be really nice to have Nostr to point to as a counterexample of lots of typical people controlling their own keys.
