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MrWonderland on Nostr: While I love that story, I am also annoyed that once again a person got lured into a ...

While I love that story, I am also annoyed that once again a person got lured into a fully closed source and custodial system. This is not helping anyone really.
And the most annoying thing is, there are fully open source and non/self-custodial alternatives.
If you'd have onboarded that gentlemen to Cake Wallet and Monero, he had privacy from the start (without needing any further knowledge and pretty much no way to shoot himself into the foot). But also everyone had lower fees paying him.

It just makes me sad when I hear Bitcoiners talk about centralization and not needing to trust third parties, but then in the same sentence recommend WoS...