I like keeping in contact with other plebs and I'm always trying to get friends and family into Bitcoin. Nostr DMs are so shit for the former and the latter is always a challenge. This bridges two gaps for me personally: 1. I can chat with my fellow Bitcoiners securely and reliably 2. Since most of my friends and fam already use Signal it's a perfect way to introduce them to Bitcoin Lightning and show them how easy it is. Number two is especially strong if I just point them to @BTC Map as well. Literally it's "yo I can send you Bitcoin just as easily as sending fiat on other messaging apps and you can go into the real world and actually spend it." This can seriously be so powerful for adoption. No need to tell your normie friends they have to set up a wallet and explaining how everything works. Just being able to send it on a Signal chat. I'm seriously so psyched for this.

I have not really any friends and family which is in BTC anymore. They all moved on to Monero for many reasons. But also I have not a single messenger app where I can send fiat, also no need for that.

Monero is honestly great, I'm a Bitcoiner but I'll admit XMR is literally the only altcoin I use and it clearly has genuine advantages for privacy. I literally used it just a few hours ago in fact. But Lightning is so much better suited to this use case (instantly sending through a messaging app) and Bitcoin is better sound money. Lightning provides decent privacy itself as well - not Monero level, but enough for most people since there's no public blockchain and transactions use onion routing. And fair enough if you don't send fiat via messaging apps but a lot of normies do, so making it just as easy to send Bitcoin is seriously a big deal.

I was in BTC from 2013 onwards. i was a maxi but that changed 2 years ago. When my friends and family saw how private Monero is and how easy it is to use, where you can use it, they moved to Monero.