I hear ya. At the same time, running a lighting node does not have to be that difficult. We make it easy for folks. It is because Nix-Bitcoin is top not software. The balancing of channels, yes, a bit of maintenance. However, as with anything, there does need to be energy to maintain things. Also, the power of Bitcoin and what it means for their financial freedom out weighs the "burden" of balancing a channel.
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No business is gonna spend this time and mental energy so 1% of their customers can pay with BTC. I was in this business for years I've heard from hundreds of them directly. If it's not dead simple and easy they'll just continue using credit cards
https://phoenix.acinq.co/server fixes it
It takes care of liquidity and channels management for merchants while being non-custodial
Yes, super easy, but it has too much centralization for my taste.
Yes, I do not know your experience. This sounds like you have some fine expertise in this area.
I see it as there will be more folks that will be wanting to pay in bitcoin and the business owners will need to have options.
I think there will always need to be energy and options for self-sovereignty. If L2 or L3 keep moving further away from self-sovereignty to "fix" the easy of use problems, this will end up creating trouble later.
I go out of my way to support businesses that accept bitcoin, usually at greater expense to myself. A lot of bitcoiners are like this. Having the option to accept bitcoin would bring in business that a business otherwise wouldn’t get.
I’m also seeing some adoption of lightning and it’s very attractive to businesses.
then they gonna hfsp 😂