weechat-matrix VS nio

I haven't had much occasion to use it (I dipped into a gaming group that used Matrix but quickly fell out of it) but https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix seems mostly adequate if you are a weechat user and just need the text chat features. Feels just like IRC.

I followed this description - weechat matrix github

For a nicely documented and clean Matrix client implementation in Python, see weechat-matrix[1] and the matrix-nio[2] library it's based on. There's also Mirage[3] which is also based on matrix-nio and is a GUI client.

[1]: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix

[2]: https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio

[3]: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage

The weechat plugin unfortunately cannot coexist with wee-slack (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/issues/812, https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix/issues/248), so if one wants to participate in the Haskell Foundation Slack, or any other Slack (e.g. for work), then Matrix is off limits. Yeah, it's just a bug that will eventually get fixed, but it does make things unnecessarily complicated. :-/

I have installed the weechat client with matrix (https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix) and it is running properly. However, I cannot figure out how to install scripts. Particularly, the upload and download files scripts mentioned in the github page, since they are not in the official list of scripts. How should I proceed?

Shameless self-plug: I've been building a Matrix client for iOS (and eventually macOS) and have been playing around with the idea of integrating a custom message type specifically for sending Nano. Something along the lines of how Apple Pay Cash works for quickly sending money to contacts in iMessage. I haven't thought about it in great detail yet, but what you propose regarding payment requests, verification on the other end and sending payment sounds fantastic. I don't want to get any hopes up, my client Nio is still very much in its alpha phase, but this sounds to useful to pass up.