I agree.

But I also have a lot of experience helping merchants set up Bitcoin POS systems and putting them on BTCmap.org. What I've discovered is really sad, actually.

I've seen SO MANY Bitcoiners go to a merchant on BTCmap, but STILL end up paying with fiat. A shameful amount.

I've seen so many LN payments fail due to some kind of technical or liquidity issue.

I've seen so many employees get angry about Bitcoin being an option, because they have to learn to use a different system and then only use it once per year! What gets repeated, gets remembered. Bitcoin just pisses them off.

I've seen so many merchants who are still on BTCmap no longer accepting Bitcoin, due to issues mentioned above.

If the Bitcoin community placed a higher value on ending fiat, and promoting Bitcoin, the problems I mentioned would be quickly solved. LN is better as more people use it. There would be more education and less failures. Employees would use the Bitcoin POS more often, and learn it, so it would no longer annoy them.

Bottom line: Bitcoiners using Bitcoin only as a store-of-value is the problem. If there isn't a large group of people pushing for Bitcoin adoption, merchants aren't going to do it. We need to rally, somehow. We need Bitcoiners to get educated on the evils of fiat, because it seems to me that many of them still don't really get it (ie. this post: #1266726)