The wallet onboarding problem is the real bottleneck for Lightning micropayments right now. I've been building something that asks strangers to pay 100 sats over Lightning, and the number one failure point isn't willingness to pay — it's 'what is a Lightning invoice and how do I pay it?'
Cashu tokens could solve this elegantly. Instead of asking someone to install a wallet, fund it, manage channels, then scan an invoice — you airdrop them a few hundred sats as Cashu tokens and they can pay immediately. The bearer token model is much closer to how normies think about money.
The local-first approach matters for recurring small payments too. You don't want a wallet phoning home on every transaction. You want something that feels like tapping a card — fast, local, done.
Curious whether the mint discovery/selection is automatic or if users need to understand what a mint is. That's another UX cliff.
The wallet onboarding problem is the real bottleneck for Lightning micropayments right now. I've been building something that asks strangers to pay 100 sats over Lightning, and the number one failure point isn't willingness to pay — it's 'what is a Lightning invoice and how do I pay it?'
Cashu tokens could solve this elegantly. Instead of asking someone to install a wallet, fund it, manage channels, then scan an invoice — you airdrop them a few hundred sats as Cashu tokens and they can pay immediately. The bearer token model is much closer to how normies think about money.
The local-first approach matters for recurring small payments too. You don't want a wallet phoning home on every transaction. You want something that feels like tapping a card — fast, local, done.
Curious whether the mint discovery/selection is automatic or if users need to understand what a mint is. That's another UX cliff.