So we depend on Bitcoin which is developed by Blockstream (Mastercard) instead.
In the end it is a tradeoff that people need to decide by themselves. I think privacy respecting and more decentralized solutions like Monero are best. It is not good to depend too much on one company or source of funding.
btcpay also seems a bit bloated and hard to host. I looked at it before but it seemed like it might not be a good idea to bundle it as a plugin.
I started work on an integration with the monero-wallet-rpc. it seems more realistic to get something working based on that, but some of the underlying infrastructure needs to improve first before I can move ahead with this.
If you have more experience with the btcpayserver let me know.
I also read the source code of the joule lightning wallet so I am roughly familiar with lightning and its UX.
Do you have to run your own lightning node to accept lightning payments via btcpayserver?
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