Sure. It’s chicken and egg problem. I don’t have good solution and I also don’t judge people, just observe what I see. I think we don’t encourage each other to spend enough though…
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Most bitcoiners don’t have Lightning wallets, or know how to use them. I know this from firsthand experience.
It's prob not the best metric for comparison, but helps to put things into perspective: if we consider Lightning Network capacity relative to market capitalization, it would rank as the 130th shitcoin
there’s not enough bitcoin beaches and pubkeys with dense lightning sellers and users in physical spaces
maybe need more bitrefil / online options
HYPERLIGHTNINGZATION
Even a bitcoin bar in every city won’t fix this.
that’s what I meant.
feels like “online lightning adoption”is the killer app
I have to agree with that. As much as I’d love to see physical space adoption, it’s not happening any time soon. I’ve done my part to help move the needle on that. Bitcoin was created as a native internet currency, and we’ve barely even started adoption online after 16 years.
Not bad considering has no shitcoin issuance or yield
I think as long as bitcoin is going through a major monetization phase (maybe up to $5m), it’ll always be a challenge spending it. But it’s a good challenge to tackle! I’m for it. Wish more people accepted bitcoin here, I’d go out of my way to pay them in it.
the cool thing I find is that bitcoin naturally acts as a liquid hardening agent, flowing in and filling problematic gaps where it’s needed most. I’m all for spending and trading in it 1000%, it just seems like right now the store of value issue is the bigger widespread gap naturally needing solving. and like a liquid, it’s now flowing to that area. as we run more into the issue of censorship in transactions, it will also naturally fill in that gap (not without the nerds continuing to build, and us still transacting in it). case in point, most normies still seem to be thinking of it as an “investment” at best
in the meantime, I won’t argue against it being up to us to keep building and transacting, cause we know that will eventually be the “gap” that needs filling too