Lightning is like magic.
You’re paying someone verified, scarce, digital cash, instantly, while nobody else knows you are (although some people might know that someone paid someone else that amount), and yet, everyone knows the exact supply of the digital money.
Mind boggling.
Yes it's amazing. Also that it can be a fraction of a cent of any denomination used in fiat and also to any country in the world. Blows me away.
My first magic moment with lightning was when I went and paid some sats for a thing and that tangible thing came a few days later.
The second magic moment has been being able to effortlessly send people some sats for their insightful, funny, and thoughtful posts.
Wait til you try eCash. Imagine taking your sats not only off-chain, but entirely offline. Print 1 sat on a piece of paper and slip it under the door. Nobody will even know that anybody paid any amount to anybody else. (There are trust assumptions baked in, but it's still 🤯.)
If you want to try it out I will send you some sats as eCash. Lemme know.
Lightning deserves more hype. It’s central to making all this cool stuff work
And this is why.
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I showed my aunt how to use Lightning the other day. I had her download Phoenix wallet, showed her how simple it was to create an invoice, and then sent her 50,000 sats. The transfer went through almost immediately. We went back and forth a few times so she could get the hang of it.
It's blows peoples minds when you tell them that sending lightning back and forth isn't the same as me sending money from my bank account to their bank account - it's using my own private bank that I own to fully settle a transaction with their own private bank. There is no middle man. We are just doing what banks do but cheaper, faster, trustless, and permissionless. Central Banking simply does not stand a chance. It's an improvement in every vector as an individual. The only thing Bitcoin is bad for - is banks.
In my experience, this is the quickest way to explain the big picture behind 'why' Bitcoin is so important. You want to get people to be Bullish on Bitcoin - show them that it just works better.
Your post is getting a lot of eyes on it.
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