For years, the Bitcoin community has lived with a persistent dichotomy. On one hand, we have witnessed historic milestones—a sovereign nation, El Salvador, adopting Bitcoin as legal tender, and institutional giants like BlackRock signaling their approval. On the other hand, the vision of a "hyper-bitcoinized" world where you can walk into any coffee shop globally and pay for a latte with satoshis remains elusive.

Critics often point to this gap as evidence of failure. They argue that the Lightning Network—Bitcoin's layer-2 solution for instant payments—has been around long enough to have taken over, yet it hasn't. The narrative suggests that if it were going to happen, it would have happened by now.

However, this perspective misses the forest for the trees. Lightning hasn't failed; it has been waiting for its foundation to cure. Money does not evolve in a chaotic vacuum; it follows a strict evolutionary path. We are not witnessing a stagnation of the network, but rather the precise moment where we cross the bridge from

"Store of Value" to "Medium of Exchange."

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