Money is mainly psychology. It starts with DEBT, debt predates money by millenia.

Money itself is whatever is to hand that meets required criteria of portability, acceptability, predictable scarcity.

BTC was interesting but only met the last criteria. The first was fucked by transaction costs. If you can't give someone 1c, it's not money.

LN solved that, and UI improving UX is going towards driving the final aspect - acceptibility.

The nice side effect is that if LN succeeds, us early holders (and we are way early. It's 1910 in auto industry years), get to see BTC growth as it is in effect backed by confidence in LN and acceptance as an asset class. And asset classes can be sticky on transaction costs and speed, those those BTC problems, not so much problems.