🗞️ Bitcoin’s positive effects on communities

🧵 A U.S. bank pilots Lightning/UMA remittances, cutting fees and speeding transfers for cross-border families.

🔍 Insight/Analysis:: When incumbents adopt open rails, they cannibalize rent streams but also try to re-wrap the commons; still, cheaper peer-to-peer money weakens the remittance cartel that tax the poor.

🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Learn to use Lightning with a non-custodial wallet, compare a bank’s “BTC rails” price to open alternatives, and help a local migrant community set up a remittance co-op playbook.

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