Here’s your #Bitcoin journey checklist:
How many of the 12 have you tried? 🚀
- Bought #BTC on an exchange? 🪙
- Sent $BTC to cold storage? ❄️
- Read Satoshi’s white paper? 📚
- Established your own node? 🖥️
- Added a Lightning wallet to your phone? 📲
- Rolled a seed phrase from dice? 🎲
- Acquired non-KYC coins? 🕵️
- Devised your Bitcoin inheritance plan? 📃
- Joined the Nostr network? 🐦
- Spun up a Lightning node? ⚡
- Dabbled in at-home mining? ⛏️
- Graduated to industrial-scale mining? 🏭
How many have you tried? Comment your score.
Hynek Jína created Lotes, physical Lightning cash than can be passed around just like bills and coins. It works a bit like the
@bolt_card
in the sense that it works by writing a LNURL-Withdraw link to an NFC card or tag. The big difference lies in the projected usage: while the BoltCard's link is meant to be used by a merchant when I pay using the card, here the idea is that I'd transfer the bitcoins by handing out the card.
However, this doesn't come without tradeoffs: when you hand the card to someone as payment, they either trust that the required amount is deposited onto it, or check the amount by scanning the card with the Lotes app. As the whole point of Lotes is to be able to move sats without touching a phone, this means that the expected behavior is to trust the person giving you a Lote, and maybe only check it later when you're at home. While I get the intention - the lack of physicality of Bitcoin/Lightning is one of the most mentioned turnoff for newbies - I can't help but to think that using this kind of systems at scale would lead to a lot of abuse. But still, an interesting idea to play with.
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