I might look into it this weekend if time permits. I have a lightning wallet integrated with breez (a podcast app), but I don't think it has an address that I could put in my nostr profile. I have used it to send sats outside of the streaming feature before, but it's integrated and the only thing it shows for receiving is a btc address.
Honestly I just think having a little fun is important and we shouldn't take any of this too seriously, but I don't know that any btc *maxi* would ally with a monero enthusiast anyway.
I don't own more bitcoin than xmr, but I do own both.
I think a lot of miners are using p2pool these days. We did have the mining pool minexmr with a large share of the hash rate but I think they've shut down and even moved to recommending p2pool. Decentralization is something the monero community takes pretty seriously.
I'm mostly just trolling maxis. I have used and will likely continue to use BTC and lightning network for the forseeable future, but I am interested in seeing monero adoption increase and integrations more common.
I've streamed sats to podcasters so I get it. integration is a nice thing. I just don't see btc+ln as equal to xmr for many things. Streaming sats is cool, but donations with xmr are also quick. The difference is if I donate to someone who is politically targeted I can be comfortable knowing I'm not going to get swept up into the net
the answer is in diversification. I have eggs, meat, apples, berries, plums, and loads of other food stuffs. I also know how to do things (skills to pay the bills) like make soap, carpentry, computering, gardening, processing meat, etc. Those who I really want to find a way to trade with have options other than just the apples.
If snowden doesn't use it then it's not worth consideration? I don't use tails os for my day to day computering either.
I would be interested in his thoughts on monero, but I don't really care if he uses bitcoin and says the privacy is "good enough" or whatver the cope is for lightning.
I own my own property where I grow food and raise animals, and I have hundreds of pounds of stored food. I don't need your apples. I have 2 apple trees, a plum tree, pears, paw paws, persimmons and more.😆
My hosting provider accepts it
Interestingly I can accept both bitcoin and monero if I want
As far as v4v the apples are free but if I want to give you something in return I can. If you don't want my oranges butyou're giving away apples looks like I have apples and oranges
If all I have to trade is a bushel of oranges I think I'll be happy eating whatever.
I don't really care what the majority of people use. I don't interact with the majority. I interact with individuals and if those individuals produce value that I want to compensate them for I'll use xmr. If they dont accept it that's their loss.
Why would the network need to be fragmented just because some people would rather accept alternative currencies from bitcoin for v4v stuff. No reason nostr couldn't support both payment protocols. There is already a pay to relay option for xmr implemented and open sourced over at xmr.usenostr.org
Yeah or another similar service. I use pleroma but I think the api is more or less aligned with mastodon.
decentralization has nothing to do with how frequently you write blocks or how large they are allowed to be (perhaps an argument might be made for security but I don't see how [please elaborate]). If anything I'd say the high cost of entry into mining btc makes it more likely to be centralized. That's why you see massive hash rate drops when problems emerge in specific geographical locations. https://decrypt.co/117916/bitcoin-hash-rate-suffers-near-40-drop-amid-u-s-deadly-winter-storm
Monero is very likely more decentralized. A lot of us run a full node on our own, and p2pool makes pool mining accessible without compromising on decentralization. A lot of bitcoin is mined in datacenters, and many people still haven't learned that they should be holding their own wallet keys so a lot of bitcoin actually lives on the central exchanges. The [US] government even wants to make holding your own keys equal to being a bank to try and keep it that way.
Lightning isn't on chain. I know lightning is faster but it relies on locked funds on the node which limits the size of transactions. Monero is fast without relying on a layer 2 solution and doesn't require me to rely on a third party or stake money I may or may not have to receive funds.