In other words, a token.

A token is not the real thing, just like USDT is not USD.

LN is a token technology available to any other crypto so that point of "fast transactions" is moot when any other crypto can literally enjoy the same tech.

Albeit we never see LN being used in the real world for anything other than zaps or the ocasional coffee because for anything bigger it will break often or not find a channel. That is really the reason why monero doesn't care about acrobatics and just uses monero itself without loops nor jumps.

That is the same as saying that USDT is USD, they aren't the same at all.

LN is not bitcoin. It is an abstract payment technology that can just as easily be applied to Monero. The reason why it isn't is simply because nobody cares about 10 verifications for small purchases in the real world, which is where you find the heavy XMR users on daily basis.

More verifications are essential for larger purchases and still somehow you try to ignore that fact.

You continue putting here the answers from chatGPT which are shallow and incomplete. At least ask chatgpt to go deeper and do a proper analysis of my reply.

You are a human, can still think on your own, learn on your own. That machine isn't helping you grow in knowledge.

> implies centralized issuance, account freezing, and programmable expiry. Bitcoin has none of these.

That is your opinion. Federal governments have been using all kinds of currency since hundreds of years and this is just another tool under their "compliance" belt.

> Here's how Bitcoin actually works for privacy without permission:

lol. Don't let chatgpt write things for you. Use your own brain. None of those things are private once you do your own research.

> Lightning provides instant, onion-routed payments

LN is not BTC. You have never done a payment in monero, otherwise you would know that people don't "wait 20 minutes" for paying a coffee or small things. They want for more confirmations for larger values where the loss is considerable.

On that chatgpt case of paying at a clinic they have your identification. You are owing them money, wether it takes 20 minutes of 20 days they know that they will be paid. That is not even a realistic situation at all.

Just try it once.

Unlike fedcoins that often use slavery-based mining farms in China, Monero can be mined right now with your laptop: https://gupax.io/

That fedcoin is synonimous with surveillance. Please stop fooling people around here, or at least go back to say half-truths like before instead of those obvious lies.

A fedcoin where all transactions are transparent, where everyone can see how much money a person has on the wallet is exactly the opposite of protecting against surveillance, it is in practice inviting it.

We are better with monero and its privacy against surveillance.

Nobody ever does that. It is the same as advertisement, why the effort to install adblockers when they shouldn't be so damn invasive into our lives in the first place.

All good. Can we have removable bottle caps again?

Now you know why women live longer.

I have installed and works great. My only request would be automatic support for dual languages.

Other than that I've enjoyed the fdroid install and their overall mentality to software. Good apps.

There are good crypto technologies out there that seldom get attention.

My two favorite ones are BEAM because it allows to create tokens privately and SIGNA because their mining method is based on disk space, rather than GPU/CPU burning.

Those who try to turn technologies into religions don't really have our best interests in mind as their own goal.

Yep. Notice that neither of them tend to lie. Their words are carefully to chosen to say truths while ommiting critical aspects that will mislead those who don't know better, so more of "half-truths" than reality.

They wouldn't be able to "discover" monero even if there wouldn't be any other choice left. To be quite frank, anyone that looks informed on this topic and doesn't support monero is likely paid to ignore it.

More bullshit about "signal", there is more evidence that it is NOT secure than otherwise.

Being open source is not a guarantee at all, considering there is zero verification that the servers or clients are running the same code presented as open source.

Furthermore, those encryption algorithms are perfectly useless when it is easy for that app to send your private credentials back to their servers.

These are basic facts, seeing them being ignored so consistently is indeed suspicious.