The so called “guides” leave a lot to be desired in particular for getting a self hosted hub up.
For someone new to lightning (even though I’m adept at BTC on chain) there has been a lot of confusion on my end especially around sending and receiving channels and funding the channel open via my on-chain BTC.
I had to go to a 3rd party source to watch a tutorial and finally understood how to do it.
While your hub has built in “steps” to finish setup; the UX is not smooth for newbs…it’s smooth for devs and people that have experience with lightning but if the target is adoption of Bitcoin and lightning via Alby…a lot more emphasis to smooth onboarding should be prioritized.
Last point: (it was like 10 days ago when I started this process so forgive me if I’m mistaken) when I first went to create an Alby account to get the browser extension setup, I think y’all asked some KYC questions…I know Primal did, can’t recall if Alby did specifically…if we are trying to build adoption of an anon and private tool like Bitcoin…nix the KYC…even basic thing like email…make it optional and npub/sec only…
REALjasonansley / Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | $GUARD WDWP#31
npub1ur…xdx2w
2024-09-17 06:29:17
in reply to nevent1q…hrku
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2024-09-17 06:29:17Event JSON
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