No it didn’t explode with nostr. It exploded with privacy swapping and the implementation of lightning into a shitload of square pos terminals. A gazillion more point of sales than all those monero shops.
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Can you prove that with square statistics? I talked to my local coffee shop a month after square released lightning and I was the first person trying to pay with lightning. My payment also failed after 60 seconds ostensibly because my channel was opened with too small a node and couldn't find a path lol.
I'm dealing in real hard evidence, you're talking about speculation. Can you bring the evidence? Also bit of an unfair comparison bringing up square since the only cryptocurrency they can accept is lightning bitcoin. It would be very hard to surmise a direct comparison between lightning and monero when you're dealing with a platform that only accepts one and not the other.
I can tell you that since they implemented it the volume on my routing node increased drastically. Why is the comparison unfair. Way more people holding bitcoin than monero and they gonna switch to lightning (with privacy features like ecash on top) than going to swap to monero to pay goods on the darknet.
Very speculative claim with limited evidence of real world transactions. Since you're talking hypothetical we will have to come back to this in the future.
Agree, it is speculative. We are gonna see. Enjoyed the talk anyway! Always good to have different opinions talking about possible outcomes in the future without insulting each other ✌️