>learn about and how to use bitcoin >avoid all scams and shitcoins along the way.
>learn how to use lightning, ideally self-custodied and that mess entails.
>learn about ecash and cashu
>set up, physically secure and use an offline storage/signing device, ideally
>learn about and how to use enutz
>transfer fiat to btc to lightning to enutz
Buy a coffee.
Further steps needed include a vpn for privacy. Facts like mints can steal, mints can refuse inter-mint tokens ignored for now.
Each, a pain point where a user can decide to just use a big tech solution.
Since you have not responded (i can only imagine how busy you are, no doubt) i have had to imagine alone, what the user journey would be and what the end goals are.
When bitcoin started and took off the goal was something like "hard" money meets protest. It was going to be the easy, safe digital money for everyone. I really can't emphasize enough how "easy" it was envisioned to be compared to the bank teller, chequings and travelers checks of the day. But now we have cashapp and, god forbid, Paypal, X pay in the works, and apple pay ubiquitus in some places.
is the end goal of Cashu to be "cash" and/or the money everyone uses, without needing to withdraw back to btc ?
Very cool stuff being built and worth it for its own sake, i never aim to pull down builders, as a seagull i eat crabs, bucket or not.
Just curious about the expected market for its learning curve and time commit.
how is the mint backed?
I was talking with a shitcoiner yesterday about nostr and how it avoids the need for blockchain and a token. I felt a little bit hypocritical when I said it only uses Bitcoin. It would be good to have the ability to use usd, even if just to help nostr avoid perception as just another crypto scam.