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NWC is easier for connecting your own node and doing self custody. If we are giving up on self custody then sure cashu is better. I am not gonna give though and I am surprised so many bitcoiners on nostr are like this. What happened to not your keys not your coins. We should be building better self custody tech, not tech that is optimizing for custody.

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Agreed, I'm surprised by the push for cashu. Cashu may add nicer onboarding into lightning, but we need better self custody experiences. Imo we are one leap away from having it. Phoenix connects to a single LSP and is locked to the LSP. If there would be an intuitive way to migrate the channel to another LSP in the case Acinq goes down, then we have a fully self custodial lightning with great experience.
Grifters don’t care about things like self custody, they care about things like ease of use. The easier it is to use, the more people come in, the more people that come in, the more zaps the influencers get for selling their grift. If someone is willing to compromise their principles for ease of use, then you know what their principles are.
This reminded me that I had given up on the last important thing with Minibits for zaps. Nudged me to try @Alby and it is by far the easiest lightning node to setup, and it includes all the goodies for nostr and LNURL. Convenience is no longer an excuse 🫡
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NWC is easier for connecting your own node and doing self custody. If we are giving up on self custody then sure cashu is better. I am not gonna give though and I am surprised so many bitcoiners on nostr are like this. What happened to not your keys not your coins. We should be building better self custody tech, not tech that is optimizing for custody.
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