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I was raised with a light version of this: you can do anything. Looking back from what is approaching mid-life, I feel that it wasn't terribly helpful.
At least in the version of US culture in which I was raised, it lacked an emphasis on how one made good decisions about what the "anything" was. It's one thing to tell kids they can achieve anything, but it's a much different thing to help them figure out what is worth trying to achieve.
With my own children, I'm trying to emphasis a "you can just do things" attitude (we don't need to wait for approval, or further education, or certification, or permission) and a lot of conversation about what things we think people do that are useful for the rest of the world.
I will also say I often feel like I'm failing at inculcating these ideas in them.
Similarly, a digital product isn’t anything automatic. It doesn’t become beneficial because it’s usable.
It does seem like there is no higher virtue than usability in apps today. Or maybe it us that maximum usability is our definition of beautiful in an app.
Perhaps the biggest difference between a community garden and Versailles that my non design brain notices is that the "users" can alter the space of one and not the other.
I think SN does a pretty good job of this, but I'm curious what you think?
Well, you could make it super exclusive by requiring people to put up some kind of bitcoin bond--in order to see the 1btc people, you have to put up 1btc, etc...
But honestly, if I was in the dating world, I would choose to take my risks at the bar, rather than via advertising my stack.
I think you may have thought it through more than me. My original point was mostly: people are afraid of going to jail, and running a mint seems like the kind of thing that will get you sent to jail, therefore, wouldn't it be great if Skynet ran a mint?
It was, admittedly, not a very deeply thought through concept.
The idea of an autonomously-running mint does sound pretty cool. @optimism's reality checks are likely needed though. I'm still struggling getting Goose to run on my laptop, so we are probably a long way off from autonomous cloud mints.
As far as I know, I can't use Phoenix mobile to do something like receive zaps on nostr or stacker news. Most of the mobile wallets are not good at asynchronous receive. And as far as being an easy onramp for normies, I think this is a pretty huge obstacle. If I tried to run a webshop with a mobile lightning wallet, it wouldn't work because new node wouldn't be on.
Channel creation is also a pain for new people. If I tell a friend I want to send them a zap to show them how it works and they download Phoenix, they don't have any channels open. I thought for a while Phoenix was doing the thing where they would let you accumulate sats until you had enough to open a channel, but in reading over their FAQs just now, it looks like they don't do that. Maybe I'm confusing them with Zeus. Doesn't matter: to meaningfully use lightning, you can't just up and let someone zap you 100 sats or even 1000 sats. Even starting with a 10k sat zap is kind of silly. As far as onramps go, this is another huge obstacle.
In both cases, ecash fixes the problem. I'll admit it's almost the same fix as a custodial account, with the slight benefit that the mint may be blind to your intra-mint transactions. I suppose the advantage of mints right now is that people seem willing to run them like it's the wild west while the custodial people are generally adopting kyc compliance. This gets to your point about jurisdiction being the key, which is a good observation.
I don't think I said/implied that ""ecash is at least as risky as Phoenix." I said ecash is good at onramp, and I think this is true.
So: I agree with all your points except that Lightning solves onramp.
Will my fanciful ai-operated mint fix this? probably not. But I'm open to looking under ugly rocks for solutions.
First kid my wife and I had was not planned. I had a really crappy part-time job at a salvage yard, my wife was unemployed. We had no clue how we were going to support a kid, much less raise them to be a good human.
I'm so grateful because I don't know that I would have ever been brave enough to choose to have a child -- but it turns out they are pretty awesome (and incredibly frustrating).
This sounds like a good idea, except that enterprising individuals might use it target wealthy hodlers and lure them in with a thirst trap and then wrench attack them. What is your defense against this?
I hear you. Didn't mean to come off critical, but I've always been curious about the "burn as donation" concept. I'm pretty sure even Satoshi mentioned it.
At the same time, I wonder if there is some number if burned/lost sats beyond which we all start to wonder...
Why would burning sats be a good thing? Would btc be better if satoshi had a proclivity for 11 million instead of 21?
It also is the case on my phone. My phone is on 🔥! (But it's kind of a nice butt warmer kind of thing)
you, personally, have every right to refuse the arbitrary orders of tyrants
This is a great distinction! They didn't do it alone, either. Our freedom to organize and communicate with each other is core to this.
and for onramp, LN solves this better than any centralized mint.
I don't agree. Lightning is great at payments as far as I am concerned, but it's not good at onramp.
Lightning is complicated and starting a channel takes some amount of capital. Phoenix and Zeus both have good solutions, but ecash is also a valid onramp in my opinion.
The flow that goes: start with ecash, build to channel open, swap out to chain when you fill your channel is pretty smooth and an acceptable trade off, in my opinion.
When I say limit my exposure, I don't mean holding serious funds at a mint. I mean that many use-cases of lightning are being hindered by the "open a channel" barrier to entry. Ecash opens new doors here.
For instance, I find ecash wallets plus nwc a really great way to use nostr and SN. I don't want to run an always-on server for LN. Phoenixd is about as good as it gets.
The problem is mints are essentially mixers. I worry that it's only a matter of time before mint operators come under fire. Having some weird, ai-operated mint seems like a possible, if fanciful way of keeping mint doors open.
I didn't do anything different than I normally do. I dunno.
Edit: it's the heading! SN let's you link to an anchor in the heading like so:
stacker.news/items/1020579#spark-is-a-statechainClick on the hamburger menu to the right of the post title. It shows you all the headings. Each one is an anchor link.