i dont get why it needs to be legal tender. If i pay with gold for example, there are laws that i can not pay in a non kyc form above 3k or 10k. I can pay with gold but the receiver has to kyc me. 

Darthcoin_Cash

If it's not legal tender, they can't regulate businesses accepting it via KYC-only. It would be like things currently are, where business would have to convert anything they took to fiat for tax reporting purposes. They could still ban it outright, but that in and of itself is easy enough to get around.

Yeah, selfhosted lightning isn't something Joe Average is ready for, but I'm assuming that things will get easier on that front in the next few years (possibly a bad assumption).

bitcoin

Can Bitcoin enslave us all?

If it's not legal tender, they can't regulate businesses accepting it via KYC-only. It would be like things currently are, where business would have to convert anything they took to fiat for tax reporting purposes. They could still ban it outright, but that in and of itself is easy enough to get around.

Yeah, selfhosted lightning isn't something Joe Average is ready for, but I'm assuming that things will get easier on that front in the next few years (possibly a bad assumption).