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I'm right there with you, I am amazed at how far Lightning has come and all the cool stuff it enables, even if it's a little bit buggy/frustrating at times.
The biggest thing Lightning is missing today is education. The "shitcoiners" the "degens" the "crypto" nonsense has tremendously slowed Bitcoin's adoption, especially when people buy Bitcoin because of NgU not because of curiosity or technical competence or value.
That's what the bear markets do - they wash out all the tourists and IMO we are speed-running year 4 of "the cycle".
In the meantime we need a lot more education but it will take time and be gradual.
I can personally attest to lots of different businesses that now accept Bitcoin that didn't several years ago. Its extremely niche but you can actually use Lightning in the 'real world' which didn't exist 5 years ago.
BTC/LN will not succeed if too many talk the talk but do not even bother attaching a gun.
You excuses for not doing so are unconvincing.
LN will only succeed if all the hopium talk is matched with actions and courage.
Not attaching a gun is a strong indicator of cowardice, hypocrisy and arsemilking.
If I have zero CCs/Sats in my Stacker News "wallet" (which I do, I have zero).
How am I paying to post comment or zap other users???
No doubt you use the QR code, as I do if when there is occasionally a glitch with SN/coinos attached wallet.
The point is why not just attach a wallet and show your gun with pride, rather than hiding your LN use like a coward?
I do not use any other social media.
Only SNs.
The V4V aspect of it works to limit the spam and bullshit.
The P2P sats capable nature of it makes me want to use it and only it.
X and all other social media? I do not want them or need them.
There is absolutely zero guarantee that LN will one day proliferate.
ZERO.
It will only grow if we use it and there are still fuck all places we can use it.
Stacker News is one of the very few places we can use LN everyday...so lets use it!
SNs is an ideal platform for ironing out many of the bugs that remain in LN.
It is a work in progress where we can all contribute to and help grow the strength of the LN.
@DarthCoin for all his BullShit claims of 'living on the bitcoin standard' refuses to use sats here- he is a hypocrit as is any one calling themselves a serious Bitcoiner but cannot bother attaching LN wallet/s.
If we do not there is every chance in another 5-10 years that the project of a P2P payments protocol will have failed.