You should welcome criticism. That's the crucible for improvement. Assume Monero is a complete dead-end, if nothing else, those Monero reply guys helped put pressure on Bitcoiners to bring more privacy solutions to shut them up. Win/win imo. To your last sentence, Nostr already has a couple Monero integrations: https://anarkio.codeberg.page/nostril/#/home/

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GitHub - retrnull/garnet: A fork of Amethyst with Monero tipping support

A fork of Amethyst with Monero tipping support. Contribute to retrnull/garnet development by creating an account on GitHub.