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pricci | 2 years ago

> Pay anonymously with Bitcoin. Or use Lightning for instant payments and lower fees.

Bitcoin is not anonymous. This makes me doubt of all their privacy claims

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d11z|2 years ago

If they wanted to accept crypto, would there be anything stopping them from using Monero at least, instead? I wonder why they would ignore the major actually anonymous token.

yieldcrv|2 years ago

because its compromised by a Bitcoin maxi

they’ve been slowing progress down for 10 years straight now

but don’t worry you’ve been able to pay bitcoin invoices with monero and everything else for nearly as long too, just use a mixer and set the destination asset and address to the one on the invoice

wkat4242|2 years ago

Some countries like India make owning monero illegal so it's not an option for everyone. How they're going to prove it is another story of course. But it is what it is.

They also ban most sat phones by the way.

ancientworldnow|2 years ago

It seems they're a Bitcoin core developer, I'm sure they're aware of the issues and asterisks.

INGSOCIALITE|2 years ago

Mullvad lets you pay with monero- or cash in an envelope.

thinkmassive|2 years ago

The blockchain is transparent and immutable, but additional layers like the Lightning Network can provide a range of additional privacy.

As others have mentioned, swapping between chains is also an option.

HeartStrings|2 years ago

Yeah, if they don’t accept XMR it’s a huge red flag. Hard pass