ChadF on Nostr: I agree with all your points about the on-boarding being hard. Here’s my take on ...
I agree with all your points about the on-boarding being hard. Here’s my take on on-boarding from someone who has been following podcasting 2.0 since the beginning.
TLDR we started with Sphinx (no longer used)
Then moved to the Breez app (still works great for sending sats to podcasters)
Then we came across something called LNPay (https://github.com/lnpay) that allowed each 2.0 app to create a listener wallet that we could top up to send sats to podcasters. Tim eventually shut this down.
The apps that were using LNPay moved to Alby’s hosted wallet since it had a similar implementation and this was actually a benefit as a listener since each LNPay wallet was tied to each app so as a listener I had 4 wallet across 4 apps and the Alby wallet was 1 wallet across 4 app.
Fountain then came along somewhere in there but I forget exactly when but everyone is familiar with that.
So 5 years in we basically have Fountain and AlbyHub for PC 2.0. Most of use in PC 2.0 were telling people to get an Alby wallet because it could be used across several apps so you could pick which app you liked best and weren’t tied to just one. Alby also made it easy for podcasters and musician to use to receive sats via the PC 2.0 protocol. Then Alby switched to AlbyHub and the diehards (myself included) fired up lightning nodes to keep the freedom we already had from Alby. Some people Uncle Jimed friends and family onto their new nodes but that’s something that should only be done with someone you trust. Others just switched to Fountain and some that were on the fence about Bitcoin just gave up.
What my point in all this? I don’t really know but over the past years I’ve seen Bitcoiners claim to support V4V and PC 2.0 but haven’t seen any growth outside of Fountain and Alby. Now enter Nostr and the divide grows even wider because Nostr fixes everything and nothing at the same time.
That CurioCaster payment at the top was a streaming sat payment from me while I was watching the concert in an app that 99.9% on here dont even know about but was the first one to implement these cool features that made this concert happen including the Magic Wallet Switching Technology that got these bands paid. StevenB++
TLDR we started with Sphinx (no longer used)
Then moved to the Breez app (still works great for sending sats to podcasters)
Then we came across something called LNPay (https://github.com/lnpay) that allowed each 2.0 app to create a listener wallet that we could top up to send sats to podcasters. Tim eventually shut this down.
The apps that were using LNPay moved to Alby’s hosted wallet since it had a similar implementation and this was actually a benefit as a listener since each LNPay wallet was tied to each app so as a listener I had 4 wallet across 4 apps and the Alby wallet was 1 wallet across 4 app.
Fountain then came along somewhere in there but I forget exactly when but everyone is familiar with that.
So 5 years in we basically have Fountain and AlbyHub for PC 2.0. Most of use in PC 2.0 were telling people to get an Alby wallet because it could be used across several apps so you could pick which app you liked best and weren’t tied to just one. Alby also made it easy for podcasters and musician to use to receive sats via the PC 2.0 protocol. Then Alby switched to AlbyHub and the diehards (myself included) fired up lightning nodes to keep the freedom we already had from Alby. Some people Uncle Jimed friends and family onto their new nodes but that’s something that should only be done with someone you trust. Others just switched to Fountain and some that were on the fence about Bitcoin just gave up.
What my point in all this? I don’t really know but over the past years I’ve seen Bitcoiners claim to support V4V and PC 2.0 but haven’t seen any growth outside of Fountain and Alby. Now enter Nostr and the divide grows even wider because Nostr fixes everything and nothing at the same time.
That CurioCaster payment at the top was a streaming sat payment from me while I was watching the concert in an app that 99.9% on here dont even know about but was the first one to implement these cool features that made this concert happen including the Magic Wallet Switching Technology that got these bands paid. StevenB++