I’m sure a Monero bro will soon appear to set the record straight with some receipts. I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I know a bunch of Bitcoiners and I’m the only one among them who spends his bitcoin, the rest of them vaguely know how to use lightning and just hodl.

yeah hard to get good data here tbh but the data we DO have shows that with any merchant who accepts both, monero is used VASTLY more than Bitcoin and LN

We can look at examples where both are accepted. Monero is either ahead or right behind Bitcoin in use. Which is spectacular for how small Moneros userbase is in comparison. SilentLink, Coincards, NanoGPT, PayPQ, NymVPN, ShopInBit, Porcfest vendors, Darknet Markets, etc all show this when they breakdown what their customers are paying in Bitcoin and Monero have a symbiotic relationship imo. Different strengths.