Good on you, cowpokes! If anyone can deliver the seamless experience of bitcoin-enabled forums without doing custody for users, it's SN. Excited to see it shape up.
Also: users almost never do anything until they have to.
Also2: all the regulatory uncertainty around custody might end up being a gift if it pushes the trend toward real bitcoin use rather than centralized databases.
When you can't use wallet of satoshi, you look for a product you can use and end up with something like mutiny or Zeus.
Agreed. It'll be painful but the whole ecosystem will be less fragile.
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You guys are all super communicative already, but this would be a fascinating opportunity to journal how it's going in quasi-realtime. What issues do you find, as things roll out? How do people behave? What are the blind spots, what are the opportunities to fill?
It's very meta, but could serve as a very useful guide to the rest of the btc ecosystem, and also good reading for posterity. You're an important part of history, even if you probably don't attend to it in your day-to-day concerns. (Or maybe you do -- you tell me.)
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Good idea. I’ve probably already forgotten things we’ve ended up learning.
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