TheFuzzStone on Nostr: I recently onboarded a new merchant to Monero: a small cafe with delicious food and ...

I recently onboarded a new merchant to Monero: a small cafe with delicious food and coffee.

Of course, the owner had heard of Bitcoin and so on. And I thought he would offer me to pay with BTC... 😒

He asked me, "How is XMR different from BTC?"

1) Privacy by default
2) Cheap on-chain transactions

Then he asked, "Where can I sell XMR later?"

I replied:

1) because regulators are constantly fighting Monero, they are removing it from centralized exchanges to make it as difficult as possible for ordinary (non-tech) people to obtain XMR, and that people use XMR as a digital currency to purchase goods/services, and showed him XMRbazaar.com and Monerica.com;

2) if you sell XMR on centralized exchanges, you lose all of XMR's magic (default privacy);

Now I pay for voluntary humanitarian activities with mathematical money. 😌

P.S. I onboard merchants purely for selfish reasons. If you want "mAsS ADoPtioN", do it yourself.