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I was part of a conversation earlier today about what it means for Lightning payments, specifically remittances, to actually be “available” in a particular country/territory. Is it enough that the app is in the App Store(s), or is it only complete when off-ramps (read: banking relationships) to local fiat are established?

What does success look like?
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bloodymary 2y ago

In fact off-ramp isn’t necessarily bank-related. With CivKit and Nostr we could build peer to peer exchanges. I would prefer to buy bitcoins from emu peers, and local peers with whom one can exchange fiat<=>btc…

Dreams apart I think they are both part of the equation, mostly at the beginning, probably as adoption grows and shops accept btc, off-ramp would lose relevance

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Shawn 2y ago

This is a good reminder that other means are possible. Have you seen any recent progress with CivKit?

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bloodymary 2y ago

I saw they released a “beta” or something, which at the moment is a wrapper over a stirfry instance.