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I would agree with your sentiment, except that currently the Bitcoin and especially the Lightning ecosystem are too small, and there just are not enough actual users yet.
I say this as THE person who was analyzing the payment data at the single largest crypto commerce website in the world: Bitrefill.com. I know the crypto payment landscape better than most.
You cannot build a business that scales beyond the relatively tiny ecosystem that is Bitcoin MoE users.
We will be some of the very first to adopt Stablecoins over Lightning, but there are literally zero customers on that currently. So we will be devoting our development time and resources on something that has zero customers. Prudent businesses build towards existing and capturable customers.
We're not out there pumping shitcoins. We simply accept them and cash them out as necessary to fund our operations.
Feels dirty but a guy's gotta eat I guess. I personally harshly judge any company that traffics in shitcoinery but your motivations at least seem rational. We all make our choices right.
Getting bogged down in the details about L2's and Bitcoin-anchored side chains is one thing, but supporting or interacting with shitcoins is something entirely different. If you truck with shitcoins, regardless of your motivations, then you are a shitcoiner and should be treated as such. Again, I think there is grey area around stablecoins on lightning and side chains like Liquid because they are anchored to Bitcoin. A shitcoin is a very specific beast: A pre-mined casino rodeo looking for the next sucker. If you engage with that then you are culpable.