Orange pilling a friend I helped them set up a lightning wallet to receive a few sats to play with. Next thing they are trying to send the sats to revolut. He said I was crazy when I said the whole point is to at least control your own wallet, if not be your own bank. To my horror they think it is illegal not to use a bank for handling money! How can you declare anything to irs if the funds aren't in a bank?! Madness. LIke, I cant declare the current value of my house because it is not in a bank?

Also they were incredulous when I suggested that to protect their privacy they should only give an alias/anon email address, not sign in with Google... ngmi,

Adoption has a long long way to go, because these guys are closer to young hippy than mainstream boomer.