DANGER! First, I'm a big supporter of Primal, and I know why they've compromised and used a permissioned & centralized API like Spark for their wallet. It might be the best choice for many of their users. But also, you need to realize when you use Spark, you are trusting one very politically active, very wealthy, family (the Marcus family)..... to custody your funds, approve your transactions, and monitor your transactions. When Primal says that your Spark wallet is "non-custodial" - this is basically a legal fiction. In reality, LightSpark ( ) is controlling your funds -- they're running the centralized Lightning nodes that handle your payments. Again: For some users this might be fine. But if you are not a supporter of the state of Israel ... or ... if you are engaged in anything where you need privacy, or, for example, you don't want your data shared with certain governments..... please be very cautious with Spark. More details:

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Isn't Spark supposed to allow unilateral exit ? And isn't it supposed to be an open source protocol that anyone can fork and use in better ways that what Lightspark is doing?
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NaturalNerd 3 months ago
Good points. Personally, I would not keep too much money in this wallet. It would suck to lose, but not a big deal if I lose it. Usually it just gets zapped back out
Okay. I bought a Leaf razor and started shaving my head last fall. Previously I was using an electric razor with no guard. I started doing this a few years ago because of hair loss. As a result of not needing to get hair cuts, I can now stack more sats.
Hmmm. Can you make your wallet services just as simple for users? Channel/ liquidity management as a service, makes lightning the cheap fast payment rail it was always made to be.... I've been a WoS loyalist since I joined nostr 3yrs ago... but this spark thing is kinda concerning.
thanks for letting me know, I want to make the american rizful family rich, not the already rich American Marcus family who religion is Jewish. I don't trust these so called jewish families.
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FEW_BTC 3 months ago
TY... greatly appreciate you sharing your insights on this.
Thank you. Useful. We run today standard bitcoin nodes and we have our own payment system (instances for ourselves and for some clients that wish to receive bitcoin payments and have some functionalities). Next step is to accept Monero in the same fashion. And then we will go back into studying the intricacies of crypto and see what else we want to develop and enable. Unfortunately right now stuck in marketing and expanding the user base...
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