125 sats \ 3 replies \ @joko 17 Apr 2023 \ on: Custodial Lightning is Great bitcoin
No. It's taking a shortcut for something that's very hard to achieve.
Sure, it's nice to be able to tip here with a click, but it's basically cheating. Instead of implementing Alby for self custodial tipping, or any other complex solution we might come up with in the future, it's much simpler for the website to implement custodial lightning. Holding Bitcoin yourself is always the goal and we should strive to make that easier instead of building easy "solutions" to complex problems.
Self custody isn't that hard and if we normalize custodians now, suddenly people will wonder "why should I even self custody?"
Why are you against simpler solutions?
Holding Bitcoin yourself
Are you agree to hold somewhere in custody 546 sats which is the dust limit?
Do you think that holding 546 sats should be facilitated on exclusively non-custodial way?
Self custody isn't that hard
Self custody may be hard and expensive. Especially if one departs from just holding keys to running and using full nodes. In Metamask people store funds in self-custody. Does it worth anything though if it could connect to specific web sites only?
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Nobody should have a wallet just for 546 sats. Why would you even own bitcoin worth less than a dollar, realistically?
I'm not against simpler solutions. I'm against solutions that compromise basically all benefits of bitcoin.
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Here's invite for 546 sats. Use it as you like.
None of the benefits of Bitcoin is compromised here and now since this is purely added value which increases bitcoins value proposition on top of all onchain Features anybody could have for a fair market price.
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