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Sure, but those are pretty much the same arguments used against BTC early on, and even today to some extent.

Vast majority of vendors don't accept bitcoin, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work towards using it as a payment mechanism.

FWIW the more I see governments trying to ban Monero, the more I want to use it.
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Boog 1y ago

I’m very skeptical. XMR doesn’t use the lightning network so how will it scale? Blockchains are not ideal for everyday commerce

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humblepardon 1y ago

Yeah, that I'm not sure about. They have adaptive block sizes to handle more transactions, but then there's blockchain bloat. It may be theoretically possible to build a type of lightning network on XMR.

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Saberhagen The Nameless 1y ago

Heavily depends on rate of adoption and how popular you think it will become. Maybe blockchains don't scale (right now), but Lightning network doesn't really scale either. You need something like ~100MB blocks to even start thinking about it being a possibility (while also ignoring all the other UX problems with lightning)

But if it still matters to you Seraphis upgrade that is coming down the road, and being worked on atm, will allow a basic lightning type of network on Monero

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Boog 1y ago

I just zapped you on lightning. Can’t do that with XMR

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Saberhagen The Nameless 1y ago

Thanks lol but you actually can. Android app should be out pretty soon too.

https://anarkio.codeberg.page/nostril