Yea, except 99% of these people don't pay with Lightning even though they could. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. The average hodler spends fiat. It is infuriating.

Then, these businesses wonder why they even went to the effort to setup a Bitcoin point-of-sale. Employees forget how to use it, because they only get 1 customer per year trying to pay in Bitcoin. So, then it becomes a headache for the employees. This just creates a bad taste in everyone's mouth.

I've personally onboarded a few merchants to use Bitcoin, and this is always their experience.

I remember being at a huge Bitcoin meetup at a restaurant where the owner was a Bitcoiner running his own Lightning node to accept payment at his place. There were over 100 Bitcoiners there that night, ONLY TWO paid their tab with Bitcoin. The rest pulled out their slave-plastic to swipe.

The reason it's like this is because Bitcoiners, in general, are not angry enough about how the fiat system works. They seem to PREFER spending fiat. Even many in this forum will argue "spend the weak money first". Fuck that. I say spend and replace.

The problem with the hodler mentality is that they don't understand how it's negatively impacting Bitcoin adoption. They don't realize how much effort went into setting up a Bitcoin point-of-sale at these merchants. They don't appreciate the fact that spending dollars is supporting the dollar system. They'd rather be lazy.

What about the fact that Bitcoiners still tend to use fiat over Bitcoin, even when they're patronizing a business which accepts Bitcoin? Kinda makes it a tough sell to the next merchant who'd prefer not to go through the effort of setting up a whole new point-of-sale system only for people to not use it.

The number one reason merchants aren't adopting Bitcoin is because Bitcoiners are not demanding it. No one is boycotting business who only accept fiat. Not only are Bitcoiners generally not demanding it, they seem to generally not care at all. So, of course businesses don't care either.

This is what I was initially wanting to do, but getting the money side of it to work out is complicated. Not many businesses want to pay somebody to do this, even if they otherwise wanted to accept Bitcoin. And what they would be willing to pay, even if I was working 8 hours a day, won't make rent happen. At least if we're talking about small to medium sized businesses and merchants. I could be completely wrong about that of course, but that's my read on it. And unlike, for example, coding a new killer app, there's no chance that I am working for cheap now in the hopes of it making bigger money down the line.

Larger businesses might pay more, but then you're getting into long-term support contracts, complying with various standards, integrating with their ERP system, and getting a lot more complicated than "here's BTCPay server configured with what you need" or something along those lines.

Interesting I'd never heard of this wallet concept before, definitely something that is useful for onboarding new people

The cashu stuff is definitely something I want to read up more on and get a better understanding of. He's developing a lot of kick-ass stuff.

It’s quite fun!

Good point! I'll take a look at the issues list

I’m using Alby Go on my mobile.

You ever tried zeus? Never had a routing issue w it, use it daily, default settings.