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121 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17 Apr \ on: The case for the best sustainable model: DIY wallet bitcoin
DIY is great, but I don't think it would ever be mainstream. Most users will still use a wallet built by someone else.
Personally I'm of the opinion that it'll be kinda like linux distros. Yeah you can build your linux distro from scratch but not many people do that. But they're foundational enough to the ecosystem that you've got a big enough community of people willing to do open source development for them.
Most users will still use a wallet built by someone else.
They HAVE TO because you can't possibly secure a wallet software by yourself (or any software fwiw). You need multiple people and no, AI don't know anything. I have coded for over 30 years and every pull request I propose that gets no comments or "lgtm" means no mf has been willing to spend time on it and will be full of bugs.
So please, don't DIY; contribute. Find a software that solves a problem and that you use daily. Start reviewing the code. Ask questions. You'll get better results with less time spent.
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DIY is great, but I don't think it would ever be mainstream.
Long time ago, Darth once told me that we should use the power of custodial to attract more people to the system, get them to know and them BAM! you catch them because, going down in the rabbit hole, that's gonna happen.
This is just me but I never met (until today) a bitcoiner (maxi or not) that started with custodial and kept it with something related to that. Most people that take their economy by their own hands, ends with HW (Trezor, Ledger, etc) or self-custodial wallets.
So, IDK..mainstream? maybe not but mainstream for graduate your bitcoin class (aka take the orange pill)? It's something that I had in my head for a long time.
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