26 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 3 Mar 2022 \ on: What Happens When Millions of People Start Sending Each Other Sats for Great Content? bitcoin
Brave has been a real failure in this area.
The notion of creating a new web ecosystem uniting: Content Providers, Services, Ad-Buyers, and Users is really the only way to break the current model of web from Google.
Sadly, Eich's use of a shitcoin undermined the entire concept and is now fatally flawed (please submit your passport scan + selfie to move your $1.56 of useless shitcoin).
He should've used LN - I actually can't believe someone hasn't just forked Brave and removed all the shitcoin and replace with a LN wallet....
Isn’t the Alby browser extension making it so you can have lightning in all browsers?
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Right now I believe Alby is a Chrome extension, but could def see a native Lightning wallet built into other browsers too.
Notably, Impervious is launching their Lightning-native browser on April 7th, will be interesting to see what they've been building!
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I think the Impervious branding makes it dead in the water in terms of adoption.
But yes, the question will be if people want a separate browser or just an extension. Both have pros/cons.
Realistically, Chromium browsers are like 90% of the market though, right? I bet even Impervious is based on Chromium.
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They might've forked Firefox.
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Agree regarding pros/cons of extension vs browser.
For me, I think the gold ring is full browser. Imagine fully integrated paid private services: vpn, voip, email, etc.
Also you could just do neat things that would be difficult otherwise, like during a standard ecommerce checkout, generate a virtual VISA on-the-fly (paying in background by LN) for merchants that don't yet support BTC/LN.
The hard thing about all of this is getting this into mobile space and thats where browser+extension may be the winner.
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