10 sats \ 1 reply \ @chungkingexpress 16 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
Hey I claimed it! I went through the setup process and was really impressed with the UX and flow. I think there are some great concepts and designs in there that communicate a complex idea well (I am looking at it from a design perspective!).
I think this is a great way to onboard people. Quite a bit of info still though.
On a tangent, I was talking to someone else who had an idea similar to this (but a bit more analogue):
- Create a wallet and load it with a small gift amount
- Write the 12 seed phrases in a Christmas card and gift to someone with a short explainer to download wallet software and backup from the 12 words.
Now they have a small amount of Bitcoin to play with and learn from. If the person starts sending or receiving amounts you can delete the wallet from your own device and leave it to them, but if they never follow through or forget about it you can always sweep it back out (and don't risk losing the sats).
Thanks for letting us know you claimed them and happy to hear you liked the UX and flow! It still really is a working progress, as we continue to test with more nonbitcoiners and get feedback it will help us streamline it even more to have a higher conversion rate of a user downloading a wallet and withdrawing their sats.
I love that idea as well, specifically that the first experience a user gets is backing up a wallet, I think it's brilliant to have a brand new user get exposure to bitcoin via recovering a wallet that way they already experience what I would say is one of the most intimidating parts of self custody!
In essence, that's what Lightsats is trying to do (minus the wallet recovery) but basically being able to gift bitcoin to anyone and in case they just are not interested in following through with their exploration of bitcoin you can claim it back to your own wallet.
What we really want to push forward is to give options to a brand new user of the capabilities and usabilities of bitcoin! So I personally with all my Lightsats tips/gifts I have handed out I usually try to help the person immediately buy a gift card via Bitrefill, or even load up a virtual visa debit card via Moon for us is extremely important for a brand new user to get started right away experiencing all the amazing things bitcoin and lightning has to offer.
We don't want a user to claim their sats and just have them sit there where they don't learn and could potentially lose them forever.
reply