What is needed is a way to extend LN Payments in the wild the way relays extend notes. If everything is custodial, it may as well be on a mastercard or visa.

Actually it goes to what ODELL just said about the blue checks on twitter: The path Elon is taking leads to every person on twitter being verified and completely captured by one powerful person... and almost nobody cares. They say oh, yah that has value for $8, gimme my blue check... meanwhile they just put a tag on their ear for the interrim while they are fattened up for slaughter.