> Well except for the fact that those are all IOUs and Lightning is Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1567213972725854210 [[Nitter](https://Nitter.it/gladstein/status/1567213972725854210)]

cryptocoin

Love Lyn Alden's reply.

https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1567254739129180163

>The thread could be rephrased as "trading and leveraging is a far larger current market than payments in Bitcoin/crypto". 

>Not sure what that has to do with LN.
>LN is growing quickly from a small base for... payments.

>"But it's smaller than trading/leveraging."
>"Yes."

badabing

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But yeah, as other people highlighted. Bitcoin on Solana just sits there, whereas within the 4,694 BTC on lightning there is constant movement of value between people and services. 