<div dir="ltr"><div>The difference is that it unifies the cryptocurrency related payment options and reflects the currently available technologies.</div><div><br></div><div>The "payment:cryptocurrencies:BTC:LN=no/yes" is probably not too well described in the proposal, sorry about that, I'll update it tomorrow.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Lightning Network is a "cryptocurrency booster" if you will, and it works on top of well known cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC). It makes the payments fast and cheap for the customer. <br></div><div>LN support must be defined for every accepted crypto separately, because a merchant can decide to accept BTC using Lightning Network, and also accept LTC but without the Lightning Network support (making it slower and more expensive).<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 8:51 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>How it differs from <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:payment#Cryptocurrencies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:payment#Cryptocurrencies</a> ?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What new is exactly added?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>payment:cryptocurrencies:BTC:LN=no/yes<br></div><div dir="auto">for status of "support Lightning Network"<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Aug 28, 2021, 15:48 by <a href="mailto:andras.fuchs@gmail.com" target="_blank">andras.fuchs@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>Define a flexible, future-proof way to indicate cryptocurrency acceptance at stores using the payment key.<br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Cryptocurrencies_with_payment_tag" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Cryptocurrencies_with_payment_tag</a><br></div><div>Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </div>
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