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Zeus imo has the right idea. Newbies use an ecash wallet until they have enough to open a lightning channel. Then they get the lightning channel through the LSP then they move on-chain when they have enough that they can't or don't want to keep in lightning.
Lightning is relatively easy in this way... I think the harder issue believe it or not is talking about bitcoin with people to begin with they don't 'get' it or why its necessary.
On-chain SATs I agree with you is not for beginners, that's what lightning is for. I think that newbies would have a hard time with the 6 confirmations thing... They would expect lightning to be instant like anything else they use so they wouldn't know what on-chain was or what not to do. DerGigi has a great point there imo
if you do this npub->taproot address thing, you just sign up to nostr (create a keypair) and start receiving. I see the allure.
To quote Calle:
You're done.
- set
<your npub>@npub.cashas your Lightning address- set up a cashu.me wallet and login with your nsec (or signer)
Clients could set this up automatically, of course. Same principle, without the footguns.
I think some of the argument is that lightning is hard to get started for a newbie -- setting up a channel requires some amount of sats already, but if you do this npub->taproot address thing, you just sign up to nostr (create a keypair) and start receiving. I see the allure.
The flow you describe probably works, but isn't it still a really big foot-gun? In a way these sats would be even worse than kyc sats because the identity attached to them is trivially identifiable to the whole world. That seems like it's pretty radioactive.
And, like you say, why not just use lightning? If the primary use-case is newbies or nocoiners, then we can't expect them to be hyper-privacy conscious and careful. Maybe they move some of these sats into a wallet and forget how they got them and then later get serious about bitcoin and build a stack in that wallet. without thinking about where their initial sats came from. I could see many ways this goes badly.