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Adding to the parent question, why do I need a wallet to join Nostr?

I registered, and while the registration was delightfully painless, it autocreated a wallet for me at legend.lnbits.com.

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You don't. OOTB you just need keys. But NOSTR is unfortunately crypto adjacent and is being co-opted by crypto bros.

That’s probably related to the client you used, it’s not necessary for you to have a wallet. That being said, it’s useful to have a lightning address because you can link that to your pubkey and people can send you sats if they like what you have to say

Oh. I assumed all clients would do that since Nostr.com did it when I registered there.

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