lol, no. xmrbazaar is a community phenomenon. run and managed by long-standing members who want to see more clear net adoption of Monero. people who want to make actual transactions for Monero go there. shopstr is ghost town. even popular nostr merchant don't use it.

Maybe? I value decentralisation more than a community project that offers only a centralised project that can vanish at any point in time. Less value in building long term trade relationships there if it can be rugged internally born externally.

yeah, that's fair 👍 but otoh, if nobody uses it, it doesn't matter if the tech is better.

The problem is that Bitcoiners don't use it; we have a big attitude problem in this community.

Cause they are trapped in their cultist mindset

My model is to save in Bitcoin and spend in Bitcoin; it's not all or nothing. That's not the problem. The problem is getting people to understand that if it's not used, if there's no market for goods and services, it's useless.

Why would you use that boomer coin that has no privacy and lets governments rape you with taxes or consequences when using that money for things they don't like? Look at the IRS chasing the boomer hodlers and Canada catching those who donated to the truck protest. That's why we use monero. Only gov shills or naive people can afford to make boomer payments without privacy. The rest of us don't want to be chased for donating into what we support.