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I suppose you would prefer that those newbies learn about Bitcoin on X, where the dominant conversation is about MSTR?
No. I prefer to not "offer" to these noobs any option to fall into scams. Simply avoiding them.
The newbies come to SN and then they get angry and feel betrayed when they find out that all the zaps they have been receiving aren't sats, just CCs because they didn't attach a wallet.
I have had to listen to that frustration a lot. It feels very shitty to explain that they can't actually withdraw their zaps.
Because the whole marketing presentations about SN are about "come to SN to earn sats". That is totally wrong.
When SN started it was perfectly fine. And no attached wallets. Now is just a trash platform.
When it started you could use the custodial wallet to spend sats.
Now, if you do not attach a wallet you receive CCs that can only be used on SN. This makes it quite a stretch to say such a thing is a zap or Bitcoin.
Calling SN a trash platform is weak. Whether you dislike Spark or dislike CCs, it is still the only place that is making people pay to post. Which wallet a person uses does not change that.
SN became trash in the moment were added custodial and spark wallet connections.
That attract assmilkers and low key posters because their focus is to get sats not to make a good comment or post.
Having custodial sats (CCs) in SN is not a big problem as long the user knows the risks. Exactly the same as with coinos or other custodial service.
For a platform as SN, custodial sats is working perfectly fine and nobody will complain.
The excuse about "money transmitting license" is very weak and lame.
I said before: If k00b is afraid of the taxman, just put everything in my name and I will deal with so called "authorities"...
Exactly the same as with coinos or other custodial service.
This isn't quite true. If I use a custodial wallet, I can still spend sats to other wallets whenever the custodial service lets me.
SN does not allow users to spend CCs anywhere but on SN.
This is a pretty big difference, and it is one that I have personally seen turn a great number of people away.
I explain them that SN is this cool place where you pay to post and you can get zapped. They sign up and receive some sats, but when they try to withdraw they can't. So then I have to explain to them that they should have attached a wallet. And they feel that I have tricked them.
This becomes even more complicated if I try to get them to attach a wallet before they do anything else on SN. I even made a twenty slide guide to attaching a wallet and getting setup on SN. It still only resulted in them having a custodial account on CoinOS.
It feels to me like many of us are so familiar with these problems that we don't see them anymore. But to a new user, this is not a very good experience.
But to a new user, this is not a very good experience.
That's why SN was perfectly fine before introducing all this madness with external wallets.
SN does not allow users to spend CCs anywhere but on SN.
Perfectly fine with that.
Fair point! CCs are scams, more than Spark internal wallet can ever be. I had my external wallet attached since forever, but my posts earn mostly CCs. Nostr is way more fair for noobs.
@DarthCoin wants SNs to remain an ivory tower of purists- purists who do not actually use sats here they use CC shitcoins, but they wank on all day about how PURE they are LIVING ON THE BTC STANDARD ...even though they never use sats.
@DarthCoin is at best a sick joke- at worst an NSA agent seeking to stymie and undermine ACTUAL USE OF SATS BY THE MASSES.
@DarthCoin = Total ARSEMILKING HYPOCRITE
You are NOT a Real Bitcoiner!
You do not use sats here you forking HYPOCRITE!
You use CCs because you are too lazy to use real sats.
Stop bleating like a washer woman and go fork off.
you think about you but you do not think the implications on new SN users that will be fooled to fall into Spark trap...
A real bitcoiner will do all possible to protect noobs from scams, not pushing into them .