this is pure autistic lack of theory of mind and solipsism. “I run a noncustodial wallet with my own lightning node, so everyone else must be too”. Those Square vendors you lauded are not running their own Lightning node. That’s the majority of retail location Bitcoin vendors in the world and they are using a custodial solution. Lightning has nobody but very fringe nerds who are not doing business in adversarial conditions running a node.
That’s not shifting the goalpost. Tether started off on Bitcoin, had Core focused on actual real world use cases of blockchains instead of Lightning, it would be generating massive amounts of fees and countless users for Bitcoin rather than a dozen other blockchains. That Tron is the major beneficiary of Tether is a giant L for Bitcoin. People are doing
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massive amounts of commerce in USDT. Bitcoin is mostly just speculators, ETFs and cultists now. Drastically smaller amounts of commerce are happening in Bitcoin right now. And that’s because Core has continually focused on Lightning rather than the things people actually use blockchains for.
No actually it’s the opposite. I understand not everyone is running a full node. The point is that I and others have the option to self custody and pay at 10,000 retailers with square. Can’t say the same for Monero or the umpteen shitcoins. It’s pure cope.
What it really is: low IQ and motivated reasoning. It is objectively better than any percentage of the LN has the ability to use bitcoin for retailers even if everyone is not running a full node. You apply a purity test to cope with this fact. Monero does not even have this option. You brought up tether mentioned tether even though it is definitionally custodial and censorable. You just have BDS and you’re coping the hardest I’ve ever seen anyone cope. Just drop your BDS and purity tests. It’s why you’ve been spinning your wheels and getting nowhere with adoption.
