The merchants you like to talk up who accept Bitcoin I assume are Square merchants (who don't actually hold the BTC but convert it on the spot using the custodial software but that's beside the point here). I assume that because that just brought a huge number of "normal" businesses into the mix.
Square is jack (nprofile…eqct)
It's a somewhat recent development that Square enabled BTC payments.
It's cool he finally did it, I'm a fan of it.
What we Monero folk don't appreciate is the culture the toxic maxis put out that keeps people like jack (nprofile…eqct) away from Monero. The toxic plebs would eat him alive if he added Monero support. Podcastistan would go nuts.
There's really no reason to be so hostile toward Monero. It's good that we have options for different private payment methods, yes Lightning included. And it would be a good thing to have more merchants who accept Monero too.
Instead of trying to dunk on Monero so aggressively, maybe it would be helpful to relax the toxic hate toward it.
