I appreciate Alby’s push to make self custodial easier but I feel that they are refusing to acknowledge that they’re leaving a lot of their core user base behind with this move. It irks me that they do not even want to acknowledge it. Custodial services have a place and for most people it serves what they need. As it stands, most nostr users will simply move to other custodians, or use cashu wallets which are still custodial and are even less proven and reliable than Lightning.
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Most Cashu wallets are already really solid, not sure what you mean by less reliable
what do you want us to do?
They sure have a place. and it might be OK to rely on others.
We just think that the user should be in control and we just cannot offer it.
We’ve learned a lot over the time and the tech got so much better that this is now feasible. So we focus our resources on what is the best future.
and btw. I also think it’s a bit like Nostr and Mastodon and X.
On Nostr I personally think we should care about self-sovereignty.
an btw. we tried cashu, too. and it’s a option in the Alby Hub. Did you try it?
sadly cashu APIs lack some features .
