A lot of assets that are "not volatile" -- are actually very fucking volatile. Try selling a house (or other real estate) after fire, flood, or earthquake, or riot -- or even an economic crash...

1) Alby Hub if you want to be serious and self-custody The Right Way™.

2) Rizful if you want a fast/casual solution for low balances.

Weirdly Bill Gates should probably go to jail, but actually just for not giving a shit about Windows and making it such a horrible experience for everyone. The other stuff I don’t really care about that much.

hm... must be a link rendering error, what nostr client are you using? The link works for me "https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/use-rizful-without-email/"

You can also use Rizful like an app (but not an app that requires Apple or Google's surveillance/approval) -- explained here: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/phone-or-tablet

Use any email -- any privacy-preserving service (like iOS "hide my email") will work well.... we require email because you need to have a path to recover access. After studying the options, we decided that "your funds are secured only by your nsec"... was not safe enough for our standards....

This stuff is getting out of control, the surveillance -- the problem is that most normies I think are conditioned to accept this gradually and don't understand why it is a problem.

When I discuss "what I do" with real normies (those that are financially unsophisticated), and I mention BTC, invariably they say "are you a trader?" -- I think in their minds, they assume anyone involved in BTC is a "degen day-trader", someone looking at technical analysis all day and doing risky things with complicated-looking charts & graphs.

But, ironically: I have actually started multiple "fiat" businesses before this, some of which scaled well above 25 employees and into many, many millions of USD in profit... and working on Lightning is actually THE FIRST time I feel like "I'm doing something which I will still be doing in 10 years."

Like, Lightning is just getting started and there is an enormous future ahead for it.

All of the prior fiat businesses, I could envision their failure/destruction (due to changing market conditions) from the very beginning.

I just don't see an end to Lightning. I think it IS the endpoint, at least for the next several decades.

Another option, to escape fiat jail, but not have to leave behind all your Shopify data... https://docs.megalithic.me/BLFS/getting-started

My take: If you stay disciplined, you can do stuff which in 2020 you would have never attempted because you thought it would be too complicated. For example -- I am a huge Postgres user and tend to use expensive managed Postgres servers because... postgres admin is complicated. But today, in about 3 hours, I set up a pretty complicated remote follower for a local postgres instance, along with bandwidth limits, all the networking stuff, all running in docker on both ends. Something which would have taken me 3 days of puzzling to get right in 2020.

If you're building a Nostr app, you can quickly & easily create a flow for users to get a Rizful lightning address and nip-05 ... see here:

https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/easy-onboarding-for-nostr-clients

.. and here ...

https://github.com/MegalithicBTC/rizful-integration-demo