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79 sats \ 6 replies \ @lopp OP 13 Feb \ parent \ on: I'm Jameson Lopp, co-founder of Casa, AMA! AMA

Pretty important - I think this is a middle ground with regard to trust.

For example, you can fully trust a third party to hold your keys, but then we're just recreating tradfi.

Or you can go fully trustless and do everything yourself.

But with Bitcoin's programmability there's room for a middle ground. You can create hybrid distributed setups where you're not fully trusting any given third party, but are rather only semi trusting one or more third parties to help you secure your assets.

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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Feb

Do you run a "LN bank - uncle Jim" for your family and/or friends or known people that cannot run their own node?

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171 sats \ 4 replies \ @lopp OP 13 Feb

Nope, but almost nobody in my group of meatspace friends / family uses bitcoin or lightning. I gave up proselytizing it to them many years ago.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nickteecee 13 Feb

I was about ready to give up on friends and family orange pilling until I found Sats VS Fiat. Joe Bryan put together a really good video here: https://www.satsvsfiat.com/

I showed it to my mom and after watching it I think she got it. She said "On the Brady Bunch they had 6 kids and a maid on 1 salary. Can't do that anymore with Fiatellos""

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 13 Feb

That's very interesting... makes me feel better. Pretty much the same for me. I'm the weirdo and I embrace it.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cyphercosmo 13 Feb

There's more to it, from a privacy and opsec point of view, the more you talk about something it becomes more likely that will be heard or shared with others outside the group and potentially lead to physical vulnerability.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 13 Feb

For sure. I rarely talk about bitcoin.

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