You simply don't know how good PlebQR is. I've been basically living on Bitcoin for the past couple of weeks and purchasing food, drinks, clothes, tickets with the sats I earn by shitposting on Nostr....
This is pretty cool. However, clearly, the merchants must be paying some service to process the receiving of funds via these QR codes.
Call me crazy, but in a region that doesn't already have a similarly ubiquitous QR code system, if you're going to try to convince a bunch of merchants there to start using QRs, why not just go straight to lightning QRs and allow them to eliminate the middle-men fees altogether?... In the case a merchant still insisted on being paid in fiat (or just didn't want to go through the trouble of managing their own lightning node), THEN they could choose to pay a middle-man to make that happen... e.g. what Square already offers.
Call me crazy, but in a region that doesn't already have a similarly ubiquitous QR code system, if you're going to try to convince a bunch of merchants there to start using QRs, why not just go straight to lightning QRs and allow them to eliminate the middle-men fees altogether?... In the case a merchant still insisted on being paid in fiat (or just didn't want to go through the trouble of managing their own lightning node), THEN they could choose to pay a middle-man to make that happen... e.g. what Square already offers.
1❤️1