PayPal cashapp and venmo are also "more options" that allow you to interact with more different merchants.
and if optionality is a form of freedom, by that yardstick they offer orders of magnitude more "freedom" than custodial lightning does.
and in what way is a merchant "sovereign" if they rely on a third-party custodial service?
Hanshan
npub1lx…6svxa
2026-07-08 14:07:38 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…xnh6
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