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My dad made me log in to Stacker News because he wanted me to have an experience of what it's like to be a Bitcoiner.

What it was like

I expected there to be a big button at the top that says Sign in.
Or maybe it was going to be at the bottom.
After scrolling up and down a few times I did not see one.
I clicked the more button once and scrolled to the bottom again. Still no sign in button. So I scrolled back to the top to make sure I hadn't missed it.
Then I searched for sign-in by clicking on the magnifying glass. This didn't work either.
So then my dad gave me a hint and told me to click on the @anon. I didn't click on this at first because I thought it was a logo or something.
It gave me a few options. I don't have an email address so I decided to click on Sign up with Lightning even though I had no clue what it would do. I was just expecting it to give me a new page and then hopefully I would figure something out to progress.
So then I was able to edit my name and my picture. And I wrote my bio. When I clicked save, something popped up that said I needed a wallet. I didn't have one.

Attaching a wallet

I clicked on a thing that said attach wallets or something and it gave me a bunch of choices. And I decided to use Blitz Wallet. So then I had to download and install Blitz Wallet and set up a wallet there.
Inside Blitz Wallet I had to figure out how to get it to give me a lightning address. I finally found where I could put in my name and did it.
I went back to Stacker News and clicked the Blitz Wallet logo but nothing happened. Then I tried clicking attach wallet below that and it worked! It let me type in my lightning address.
Then it showed me a screen that had something about 10000 sats or withdrawal limits and I didn't understand it so I just clicked save.

Posting my bio

After all that, I posted bio. Someone zapped me and said hi. But the sats didn't show up in my wallet. Even though I saw a number next my name at the top of the screen here, my wallet balance stayed zero.
Then I clicked on the bell with the red dot and it said I stacked CCs. I didn't know what CCs were but my dad told me they were cowboy credits. He told me to check my wallet logs to see why my wallet wasn't working. This was confusing. There were several warnings that said
failed to wrap invoice: Unable to estimate route: FAILURE_REASON_NO_ROUTE
I am done writing now.
My first post was @anon. Took me more time than a min to figure it out. This was a few days ago. I’m still not sure if I got the wallet thing done.
Congrats!
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This is good feed back. Long time users like us don't remember the new user experience
@k00b sounds like a "sign in" / "sign up" button needs to be more prominent for logged out accounts
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h
Yep, we've been discussing this as part of an onboarding overhaul
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @ken 10h
I'm so paranoid. Everything can feel like the output of a language model...
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my dad said to say: "your coin flip bet was cool"
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112 sats \ 0 replies \ @ken 10h
:D Welcome to Bitcoin! I think you're well ahead of most 10 year olds!
Sorry for being rude before! Hello fellow human.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 10h
Fix that wallet kiddo. You want sats not CCs.
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I think we did. But it was hard.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 10h
Howdy
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Sandman 10h
Hahaha! It's just recently I care to check on the CCs. Earnestly I did not know. When I wanted to link my wallets, I had a little issue that seemed so confusing. Thankfully, I managed to link it up. Hey! You welcome.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 10h
you might be the only 10 year old that can write markdown. cheers to your dad!
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my dad told me how to make headings and pink stuff
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I just signed up and finding the sign up button was not clear. The wallet stuff was tricky, but cool to learn. I'm using Coinos and it attached easy enough. I'm 14 years old. We can do this.
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The best things in life are not easy. Never give up, and always listen to dad. I just zapped you some sats because you have added value to the community. V4V! Stick around and watch the fireworks as contests of ideas and free speech do their stuff.
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All good things in life are hard kid.
All traps set up to make your life worse are made easy.
Do more hard things.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 8h
Nice!
Do you plan on writing any posts? Which territory are you interested in?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 10h
Lmao I knew it would end like that
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