nano VS light-client

This touches on payment ids which is historically a sore spot with Nano. Without running a full node and using unique receiving addresses, verifying payments is hard to do. That said, there are work arounds. You can leverage the NanoCrawler apis and check pending blocks for unique transaction amounts (add tx id at end of raw transaction amount). In fact thats how Nano.to is verifying payments in the backend (unless he started up his own node).

🧡 The nano.to project definitely has ALOT of useful components: https://github.com/formsend/nano

The most important thing is that it's more "contacts"/favorites focused. Putting a more familiarity to the process for people who don't know anything about crypto. Giving the addresses a bit more personality (which is what nano.to does).

nano.to pays out a portion of its daily revenue to username holders. Neat faucet concept :)

it's also possible to encode an amount into a QR - click the different transaction size buttons in nano.to and you'll notice the QR changes to do that. it's no .to specific tech tho.

Hey ! I didn't use a platform, built everything from ground up because I wanted to learn some basic programing :) I'm using nano.to as a payment gateway. For woocommerce I think a plugin works pretty well, did you check this out? https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-gateway-gonano/

https://nano.to *

To clarify, you don't purchace a domain name, you lease a custom URL. The domain name (nano.to) will be the same for everyone. Eitherway I think it's great!

Nice! I believe Nano is headed in the same direction with https://nano.to/

Yes and there's rumor of a nano.to app coming

The information arbitrage is pretty remarkable because they get a bunch of money for printing air tokens out of thin air and selling a portion of it. They then use the money mainly to control narratives. How many people even know that literally all eth traffic runs through central infura servers? Why? Because it doesn't scale without central servers. It also doesn't scale on-chain which is what they promised 7 years ago when they asked you to give them bitcoin to create a turing complete blockchain. They tried a lot of other stuff before roll-ups with centralized sequencers with trusted multisigs. They even tried to copy Lightning and funded Raiden network.

Examples: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, Ethereum’s Raiden Network

Think of the blockchain as being the settlement layer between banks, and each roll-up or payment channel as its own bank.

Raiden Network - an instant payment solution with low fees compatible with all ERC-20 tokens.

Just an FYI: with Hub20 you can accept payments with any Ethereum-compatible blockchain and any scaling solution that uses the RPC interface (e.g, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Gnosis Chain). It also works with Raiden, which is akin to BTCs lightning network.

Except that anyone with a minimal involvement with Ethereum already knows that the base layer is not meant to be used on day-to-day operations.

We already learned about the decentralization trillema. The strategy to scale Ethereum through will be through the adoption of "layer-2" systems, where users are expected to be doing their transactions and avoid these costly transactions altogether.

There are roll-ups already dealing with NFT marketplaces [0]. There are roll-ups that can execute any type of ethereum smart contract [1] [2]. There are payment channels that allow completely decentralized and gas-less transfers of ERC-20 tokens [3].

[0] https://loopring.io

[1] https://optimism.io/

[2] https://offchainlabs.com/

[3] https://raiden.network

Raiden Network, ethereum's equivalent of lightning network, has been live on mainnet since 2020. It has little to no traction/usage as rollups are a much better scaling solution than state channels.

For those that are technical, the main selling point is its integration with layer-2 systems and support for multiple chains. It doesn't matter if you want to accept payment with Raiden or Arbitrum/Optimism, or xDAI/Polygon or BSC, your frontend does not change at all.

The point you are so reluctantly refusing to see is that it is about options and the long tail. Yeah, the majority of business and people are fine with the status quo. It doesn't mean that the rest should just conform.

> Other than that, unless you use Nano, every crypto transaction comes with a fee (...) slower than normal transactions

- https://raiden.network (near-zero fee transfers, akin to Lightning Network, running on Ethereum)

Raiden network is probably the closest equivalent of lightning network, but there are a couple of other projects using similar technology on Ethereum.