My in-person onboarding method always start with onchain... Noobs MUST learn that hard lesson. And I wrote here a special guide: The 5 stages to became a real bitcoiner. If noobs will skip these stages, they will be lost in shitcoineries...
Later they came to me asking more questions and about LN wallets. But that is another story and have its own path...
A noob must follow this path (otherwise will miss all important things): Step 1 onchain --> create wallet -->save seed safely --> buy BTC -->withdraw to self-custody. Step 2: onchain --> coin control --> UTXO and shit, eventually some coinjoins, to learn Step 3: onchain --> LN node testing/learning --> open channels --> close channels all this with learning about mempool and all that shit Step 4: LN --> learning private nodes --> Phoenix / Green --> Electrum / Breez / Mutiny --> Zeus / Blixt
You can't put a total noob to jump directly into using Zeus or Blixt (fully self-custodial nodes) or any other lower level. Maybe with Phoenix and Green the onboarding will be more easily, but still they will miss THE WHOLE ONCHAIN "PROOF OF WORK". they must learn all that stuff.
This chart is REAL - it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock'n'roll
And this is one of the most important guides that many noobs should read it: https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-be-your-own-bank-think-like
Please have some patience... solutions are coming.
planning to write in depth articles one by one for all the tools I use, might onboarding more devs here and verify my own knowledge at the same time.
It's nice to look back to see how far I've climbed while hanging around here, but then still got so much to learn.
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Yes, me too, when I look back to my oldest guides (some of them are not even public anymore), I see how things were evolving from then and how I was looking for answers. It's like a history book for Bitcoin evolution.
Is nice to write guides and see how you evolve yourself, educating others in the same time.
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yes, and the opportunity to ask and learn from the devs - the first tier of builders! It's so cool that many people still have no idea what's going on, yet you have a tiny few people figuring out how to build on top of Bitcoin, wow.
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What I notice all these years is that the majority of devs are quite separated from real life use cases.
Yes, they write code for wonderful apps and solutions, but without an intermediary to tell them what is needed and give them feedback for what they wrote, is quite hard for them to fix things and improve the solutions.
It is very important for us, the normal users, to test and give precise feedback to them. Also if you have a b it more technical knowledge, help them to debug issues, not just say "it's not working"...
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