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These are all obviously much better, but unless all wallets seamlessly support onchain, the various flavors of lightning, and cashu, you're always going to have friction when sending/receiving. "scan what?" "receive what?" "what kind of qr code is this?" "oh, my phone doesn't support NFC" "my wallet doesn't do onchain, can you send me a lightning invoice?" "it's saying something about liquidity" "what's a 'mint'?" "what is a 'melt'?" "what is a 'submarine swap'?" "why do I need to 'topup', can't I just transfer funds from my bank?" None of these problems are impossible to solve individually, but solving all of them across a network of apps created by people with different ideas is combinatorially difficult. In nostr we say "don't overload kinds". I think this is the problem — we've overloaded the term "pay with bitcoin". It means: - P2PKH - P2SH - Native SegWit - Taproot - Bolt11 invoice - LNURL - Lightning address - Bolt12 invoice - Keysend - Cashu eCash - Fedimint eCash - Spark - Ark I'm not saying each of these doesn't have its use case, or that innovation isn't good, but this complexity comes at a cost, which either the wallet developer or the user has to bear.