People who think they need to get better are normally signaling that they won’t think it’s ready for main stream adoption until it’s part of Apple Pay and nobody understands anything about how it works besides that the number on the screen moves.

Unfortunately, there’s some extent of truth to that. But there’s also cleanup and better usability that apps like Zeus and Phoenix are working on which will make it incredibly easy to get 500M self sovereign users.

As long as everything else has to be interoperable with a base economy of 500M sovereign users, we will have won. It would be impossible to fake UTXOs or lightning payments so the 7.5 Billion people making payments on custodial platforms would be kept honest every time they make a payment to a self custodial user. It’s also the opposite of fiat, where the correlation is the more wealth you have, the more likely you are to self custody.