While I understand what you're saying, I don't want the merchant to have to trust me, nor do they have to be my friend. WoS is a very specific case, I mentioned it because I consider it the best UX, I could also recommend Blink (and I do) even though it's custodial and totally open source. In fact, Blink is the most widely used wallet in many Bitcoin communities in South America. Ultimately, what I'm saying is that there's nothing wrong with it. Do I like Spark? No, but I prefer to be able to bring people into Bitcoin with WoS so they have a good experience, and then whatever happens, happens. And you know I'm also a Liquid user; I'm a hopeless case of pure, unadulterated idealism 😂. From my point of view, the right thing to do is to be informed and use the different protocols, but understanding and being consistent with the trade-offs. I have reached a point where I just want Bitcoin to be used as much as possible.

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I stopped onboarding stupid people. Is totally useless when people are too dumb for Bitcoin. I will onboard only people that deserve and really want to understand Bitcoin. Onboarding en mass is not good for Bitcoin. image
I saw people that they can't even understand how to use WoS. In the village I live, there are many people that don't even have a proper phone for WoS or never used an email. Those are the farmers here that will never use bitcoin. Is impossible, I tried and failed miserably with them. Yes, some other farmers, younger and smarter were listening my advice and get onboard, some of them even run their own Zeus, some of them are using my private LN bank. This is how I live effectively on Bitcoin for some years now, surrounded by a small group of bitcoiners providing me the basic needs.