Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 02:05:25 PM

On one hand, I like seeing greater adoption. There is no doubt that we have more and more merchants who add it on their portfolio, and as coincidence, accept it in their store as payment method. On the other hand, I rarely notice merchants who do self-custody. I'm surrounded by Internet services which have BitPay, Binance Pay and Coinbase, and very little comparably support lightning. We should fix that.

That is what I notice as well. A good number of merchants do accept Bitcoin, but that doesn't change the market dynamics of Bitcoin for better as it is just funneled back as a sale into the market through Bitpay etc.

@BlackHatcoiner when you say we should fix that, the biggest problem is probably for merchants to set up the infrastructure with lightning right? I haven't done any research on that topic, but are there companies like Bitpay that handle setting up lightning infrastructure and even connections to the merchants' accounting system?

One major step towards more merchant adoption would be plug and play solutions or click and install kind of things, but it is more complicated that I guess?

A solution would be amazing where a merchant could move a line chart in an easy to use interface like when you define sound volume, thereby defining which % portion of a Bitcoin payment they want to sell back into the market and which portion they want to put into their books as real Bitcoin. I think a lot of merchants would take a little risk and perhaps accumulate little by little through such a function. The software should handle all the accounting and they only need to shift this line chart from left to right, from 0% to 100%.

I don't know what the current status is of existing software solutions out there especially for smaller merchants who can't afford an army of crypto expert accountants.