<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1qg5r4lja0e34twn6psh49qlrzj0k28dtxxw0k4fag6sarqprfm2s7nqm4r</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1qg5r4lja0e34twn6psh49qlrzj0k28dtxxw0k4fag6sarqprfm2s7nqm4r</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2022-10-15&#xA;📝 Original message:Erik, I am fully aware of Lightning and have a been a proponent and builder&#xA;of it since it was launched, including getting Bitfinex to support LN,&#xA;building a RN LDK implementation in our upcoming app, etc, but frankly LN&#xA;has nowhere near the adoption of onchain payments for commerce, and LN&#xA;complexity, reliability, maintenance and overhead are real obstacles for&#xA;merchants.&#xA;&#xA;One of your links is to Muun, who started this thread!&#xA;&#xA;There is no practicality in a merchant saying they accept bitcoin, but not&#xA;onchain, or in having many checkout and customer service versions for many&#xA;bitcoin payment methods.&#xA;&#xA;Merchants accepting base layer bitcoin is one if the most important types&#xA;of adoption there is.&#xA;&#xA;-John&#xA;&#xA;On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 6:29 PM Erik Aronesty &lt;erik at q32.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Also, lightning works fine and is readily available in convenient mobile&#xA;&gt; apps used by millions of people, or in .   So the need for a 0conf has been&#xA;&gt; mitigated by other solutions for fast payments with no need for a trust&#xA;&gt; relationship.  And for people that don&#39;t like mobile risks, core lightning&#xA;&gt; and other solutions are now easily installed and configured for use in fast&#xA;&gt; payments.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; some references:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; https://muun.com/ (easy!)&#xA;&gt; https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning (reference, works well with&#xA;&gt; core)&#xA;&gt; https://lightning.network/ (more info)&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 11:11 AM Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev &lt;&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 12:03:21PM +0200, John Carvalho via bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt; &gt; In support of Dario&#39;s concern, I feel like there is a degree of&#xA;&gt;&gt; gaslighting&#xA;&gt;&gt; &gt; happening with the advancement of RBF somehow being okay, while&#xA;&gt;&gt; merchants&#xA;&gt;&gt; &gt; wanting to manage their own 0conf risk better being not okay.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; The way merchants try to manage 0conf risk is quite harmful to Bitcoin.&#xA;&gt;&gt; Connecting to large numbers of nodes to try to risk-manage propagation&#xA;&gt;&gt; _is_ an&#xA;&gt;&gt; attack, albeit a mild one. Everyone doing that is very harmful; only a few&#xA;&gt;&gt; merchants being able to do it is very unfair/centralized.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; ...and of course, in the past this has lead to merchants trying to make&#xA;&gt;&gt; deals&#xA;&gt;&gt; with miners directly, even going as far as to suggest reorging out&#xA;&gt;&gt; double-spends. I don&#39;t need to explain why that is obviously extremely&#xA;&gt;&gt; harmful.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; --&#xA;&gt;&gt; https://petertodd.org &#39;peter&#39;[:-1]@petertodd.org&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt; --&#xA;--&#xA;John Carvalho&#xA;CEO, Synonym.to &lt;http://synonym.to/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Schedule: https://calendly.com/bitcoinerrorlog&#xA;Chat: https://t.me/bitcoinerrorlog&#xA;Social: https://twitter.com/bitcoinerrorlog&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20221015/ff6d390f/attachment-0001.html&gt;</html></oembed>