have time to explain what you don't like about nwc? 

 nwc is great but there are no good easy to join nwc wallets with zaps 

 i agree there. there's nothing that's point and click easy to setup for complete noobs. 

 100% 

 Could it still be private even if it’s custodial?

Some clients require name, age, email, country and state of residence, which I’m not a fan of 

 yeah, all you would need is a random token which would be your account id 

 What about the ecash wallet that has a unified balance across clients that @PABLOF7z is working on? 

 Damus uses lightning not ecash 

 https://m.primal.net/JlOW.jpg 

 mainly because it already took tons of effort just to get lightning and nostr working, and adding an entire new set of primitives for dubious privacy gain isn’t super worth it for us. People wouldn’t even end up using the privacy features of ecash on nostr, you end up zapping the amount publicly anyways.

I think custodial lightning hubs work fine for nostr usecases and are simpler. Also the complexity of managing many different tokens across many different mints gets crazy fast. KISS. 

 That makes sense

I have no issue with custodial lightning for nostr; nobody is putting their life savings in a nostr wallet and social media is all about user experience 

Looking forward to see what you build out! 👊 

 Glad to see a wallet is still in the works 🫡 

 phoenixd w/ nwc, lnaddress and zap support (my satdress fork) is about the quickest and simple setup I've been able to do for self-custodial, and it's still not that simple. A hosted service could automate much of the setup and customers could still be able to hold the private keys. 

 I think you sound give @strike‘s custodial lightning wallet offering a shot. Let me know if you want to chat.