10 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar 21 Jan 2023 \ on: We've changed our mind about Custodial Wallets bitcoin
Great read. It's great to see a thorough analysis like this coming from a boots on the field point of view instead of a keyboard warrior one. I share many of your points in trying to onboard users and I myself have also let go the tension on the custodianship requirements in the early stages.
I haven't heard about this "Lightning Village" you mention. Could you please explain a bit more about it?
Thanks for the feedback. It's an experiment created to introduce LN into a village in Africa where a circular economy can be created. Most of the inhabitants shop from the same places every day, so if we can get these places to accept lightning then we can start onboarding the villagers. The idea is to get a working model of real adoption (i.e. they replace Mobile Money usage with LN), share the learnings from that so the model can be re-used all over the continent. We wrote it more detail here - https://geyser.fund/entry/864
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