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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 17h \ parent \ on: Arké Wallet: Ark wallet using second.tech implementation - Christoph Ono Design
but aren't those different use cases than I'm talking about?
I'm interested in the newbie who wants to receive a few sats fast. For instance, if they were on nostr or here on SN and I want to zap them.
I agree that custodial is the easiest and smoothest way to do this.
But there is still a lot of friction in the move from custodial to their own channel. Zeus does a great job, but somehow the user still is going to have to deal with a fee when the channel is set up, and then more fees if they push their liquidity all the way to one side of the channel and they may want to know why they are paying it and then it really gets confusing fast.
I'm curious if Ark makes that experience better. First small receive is not self-sovereign. You can't get to the chain with just a few sats. But I'm not yet convinced that the centralization trade-offs ark makes are absolutely worthless.
I think the biggest mistake many people do is that consider LN as to be an offchain of Bitcoin mainchain. And that is where many fail to understand that behind all those LN channels and liquidity there's a huge incentive to move CAPITAL not sats, as units.
And moving capital have a cost. Cost in fees and another cost in knowledge of how to move it efficiently.
Is this actually hard for newbies? Totally yes. But in the future will be much easier. People must learn, otherwise will get dumber and dumber. making things easier for newbies, it doesn't mean that we doing it better. Bitcoin must be a selection: those who do not want to learn, will use custodials, those are smarter, will use self-custodial.
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