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PayPal cashapp and venmo are also "more options" that allow you to interact with more different merchants. and if optionality is a form of freedom, by that yardstick they offer orders of magnitude more "freedom" than custodial lightning does. and in what way is a merchant "sovereign" if they rely on a third-party custodial service?

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Juraj juraj@tamersofentropy.net yesterday

The merchant doesn't have to. I'm saying that customers can pay merchants and they can run their own node. With PayPal, both sides have to be in the walled garden. With lightning, both can be sovereign, but it's also good for sovereign merchants to get paid from client's custodial wallet. They couldn't care less where the payment comes from. They don't even know.

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