1250 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 5 Oct 2023 \ on: We're Max Fang and Philip Hayes, co-founders of Lexe (lexe.app). AMA bitcoin
Philip, what was your experience like at Facebook? It’s interesting to see that your team has spawned multiple Lightning businesses.
What was the general sentiment around the Lightning Network while you were on the Facebook team?
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6732 sats \ 2 replies \ @phlip9 5 Oct 2023
funny story, myself and 3 other ppl pitched David Marcus on integrating lightning into Messenger/WhatsApp in like October 2018, rather than building our own blockchain (DIem/Libra). in hindsight, I don't think LN was ready at the time. but pretty funny how things ended up w/ Lightspark and all
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1261 sats \ 1 reply \ @idsera 5 Oct 2023
Do you think David in Lightspark will be able to onboard big companies like Airbnb or Uber?
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945 sats \ 0 replies \ @phlip9 5 Oct 2023
if anyone could, he's probably got the street cred to pull it off
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