Look, I understand the skepticism, but you’re missing the bigger picture. Our project isn’t about forcing anyone into a separate network or renting channels—it’s about harnessing the power of Lightning to capture the Bitcoin already flowing in our communities. The core strength is in its configurable split payment function. This isn’t just tech for tech’s sake; it’s designed for complete transparency. Every tip is split instantly among all staff, putting Bitcoin directly into their pockets without any hassle or room for misappropriation (no more stealing from the tip jar). That’s exactly what transparency is meant for.
Yes, we use units like millisats and LN invoice data—that’s simply how the Lightning Network operates, enabling instant, low-cost transactions that the base layer can’t match. Our device is designed to capture micro-tips from genuine BTC holders at meetups, conventions, and everyday venues, splitting the tip transparently among all staff and putting Bitcoin directly into their pockets.
i understand you want to promote "the big picture" but your picture wont match the demography of people you are aiming at, nor their actual experience they see, nor be the promised picture you suggest
i have seen many services promote to people about getting BTC, but what they end up playing with is nothing like BTC
again ill explain and i hope you put a scenario hat on where you play the participant/recipient. and not the dogma hat of your promotion side.
(play your own devils advocate for your own business risk assessment, dont jsut dream the utopia you promote)
so again. for people to get "instant" millisat in a channel set to them, without them having to load up a node and self funding a channel, it involves your end giving them inbound balance. this is not going to be them receiving over $100 worth to unlock at $2onchain fee, and they get to keep $98 worth of btc
instead when a person gives YOUR COMPANY $20 tip in BTC as part of a $100 purchase(viable on bitcoin network) and then its "split" (using different utxo thats locked into LN) split between a crew of 30 employees they are only going to get (as you admit) MICROTIPS of under $1 in millisat value which would be lost in just the onchain fee if they tried to convert to 'BTC in their pocket'
infact probably(standard procedure of many similar services) because you are the UTXO key owner of the channel you wont allow people to even close a channel unless they have inbound balance of X amount first..
so the experience which staff receiving tips would be, is that they cant even buy a their kids candy that evening with the tip they received that day, nor can they have "BTC IN THEIR POCKET"
they never experience bitcoin. and their tip is stuck in some buggy network thats useless to them.. they only experience a different network thats nothing like bitcoin and comes with alot of conditions and the funds are not actually theirs 'in their pocket'.. yet they will blame and hate bitcoin because they were told their tips were "bitcoin"
when you forget about your business plan and truly understand the real purpose of bitcoin (removing the middleman and making people their own bank), what the recipients receive is not that.
instead:
they feel that bitcoin is a scam
they feel that bitcoin is not worth getting to know,
yet they have never even experienced bitcoin through your offering. thus you give bitcoin a bad name even though you are not even using the bitcoin network with those people you are trying to recruit into your service offering
look at how fast el salvador dropped LN when they had devices to take payments promoted as bitcoin, but was really backboned using LN. there were riots and protests crucifying bitcoin, even though it was a LN problem, and everyone went back to using $$ instead of the chivo wallet pretending to be BTC(when it was LN based)
yep el salvador built physical chivo devices(things like ATM's that accepted nickels and dimes.. things like dumbed down smartphoes set just for chivo use) that communicated with retail customers to take LN(pretending to be bitcoin) payments, and within a year retailers were literally throwing the devices in the trash.. the same is going to happen for you
they might aswell have got their boss to accept paypal/venmo and then had a algo to do split payments of $$
your demography of people you are trying to adopt bitcoin is all wrong. you trying to adopt waitresses that will only get a couple $$ after splits.. amounts not really fitting for bitcoiners
the microtransaction crowd of waitresses and barmen wont like the experience because they cant take their tips home at the end of the night in their pocket to buy their kids some candy.. nor will they get to experience bitcoin...
instead they experience LN but blame bitcoin and think its bitcoin that is broke and full of crappy things
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so can you atleast do one thing.. stop promoting that LN is bitcoin.
you might want to do a proper business study on the actions of el salvador inregards to the LN backbone varient of chivo(sept 2021-early 2022)
for your own business risk assessment
