Yea I agree. What needs to happen is more "low level" services need to begin taking lightning payments.

like lawn services, handymen, auto repair, moving companies etc.

Saylor talks about mid sized businesses needing to add btc to their balance sheets but I think the real ticket is in base level, person to person services in local communities transacting with btc.

Notice how I didn't say grocery stores, dentists etc. Those are far more complex imo and would come in future waves.

I look at it like bartering. There are people that will still do that, but it's a super small sliver. But the more it happens the more normalized it is and the more people will do so. Same thing with bitcoin.

As we've seen on #nostr time and time again. The gap is removing the learned behavior over centuries of paper money that eventually turned to fiat. This is not an easy problem to solve. The solution is simple but the on-boarding is terribly difficult specifically because as a general rule, humans resist change.

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It's also important for people to not be stuck thinking about their immediate surroundings. phone to phone, p2p transactions using the Lightning Network would work perfectly in the markets of the Kakuma Refugee Camp. Those are the circular economies that I want to see people build.

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good point. You didn't mean to come off as against lightning payments more geographically dispursed. I just sorta felt like that was implied