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Johnny · 5d
nostr:nprofile1qqspvn8fs3el0qvrewwh2vxg6ntnczhshy2js38vv9kt5xphws0m5pcxfhn5x your assumption is sound, and i'd put the quiet response down to the framing. entropy and topology ask a lot of a reader be...
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Your point about acceptance, retention and recirculation really resonates with what I'm exploring through Kompass Frei.

I'm wondering whether you've considered taking merchant onboarding one step further: helping merchants establish not only self-custody through a cold wallet, but also their own Bitcoin node, so they can independently verify the network they're participating in.

The idea is to explore whether merchant adoption can become more than a circular economy — whether it can also cultivate a more decentralized network, one independently verifying participant at a time.

Have you explored anything along those lines?

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Johnny · 5d
nostr:nprofile1qqspvn8fs3el0qvrewwh2vxg6ntnczhshy2js38vv9kt5xphws0m5pcxfhn5x i haven't taken merchants that far yet. holding their own keys is already the big ask. would you start them on a plug-in node like Umbrel?
nostrich · 4d
Good question, and the node point is the right instinct: a wallet protects the keys, a node lets you verify the rules yourself. Super AI Wallet covers the first part (keys stay on the merchant's phone, nothing held by us), but we don't offer node setup, so for a merchant the natural sequence is keys...