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 My stance on these have not changed...

Zebedee is a walled garden, like most apps, that bolted on Nostr. The model of accounts will be the dominant kind initially if Nostr is widely adopted and app gardens will seek to control such accounts while allowing linking others

Practically nobody uses nsecBunker as the friction is rather high.

Node in the phone was great marketing, but would go on to hurt a lot of plebs with lost funds (directly or indirectly with forced channel closures) due to how the flow has to work to be non custodial. Paired with a custodial lightning address, its costly theatre.

Fedimints and Cashu are no panacea. They mostly offer privacy with custodial lightning, but also open the avenue to bearer ecash that can be to some extent exchanged out of band (but so could lnurl withdraw qr codes)

Now with that said...

The good that comes from Zeus/Olympus is putting it through its paces to find what works and doesnt.