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200 sats \ 3 replies \ @Wumbo 10 Jun \ on: I'm Steve Lee, Spiral lead, AMA! AMA
Do you think after HyperBitcoinization the average user of Bitcoin will know or care what layer of Bitcoin (OnChain, Lightinging, Cashu,etc...) they are using on any given transaction?
I'm a big proponent of "hide the lightning" and more generally "hide the technology behind making payments a great experience on bitcoin."
If you fast forward to the future, when bitcoin is used as everyday money, on-chain payments will be very infrequent. Payments are going to be made on a number of technologies which may include e-cash, Liquid, Spark, Ark, ZKP rollups, and of course LN, and of course LN will be the connective glue across all of these systems.
But end users don't need or want to know about all this complexity. They just want to see a bitcoin balance and to send and receive bitcoin.
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"hide the technology behind making payments a great experience on bitcoin."
Definitely. You can't think of educating billions of people about some technology before they start using it. Don't you think it would get easier and easier as the time passes? Like maybe one day we start having a preinstalled Lightning app on our phones or we have decentralised phones to make payments in Bitcoin.
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Yes I think it already has gotten much easier and this trend will only continue.
There will also be an explosion of bitcoin applications due to recent advances in bitcoin development tools and the emergence of vibe coding. The recent hackathon at Presidio Bitcoin resulted in a number of compelling applications being built in 24 hours, some of which were built by people who don't know how to code.
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