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A lot of Bitcoiners only use Lightning a few times a year when they head to conferences. They pay for food, merchandise, etc. while at a Bitcoin conference and then don't use Lightning again until their next one. It's a sad truth. Lightning should NOT be a novelty. Nostr is the best damn use case for Lightning to date. This point needs to be sung from the mountain tops.

Anything under 1M sats should be using lightning imho. Especially in high fee environments, it doesn’t make sense to be making small Bitcoin transactions without at a minimum funding new channels.

That’s really fucking sad to be honest… Nostr does highlight an important use case for lightning. The direct monetization of content without a middle man… how do Bitcoiners not see this??? It also bugs me that that a majority of Bitcoiners are not using nostr and insist on staying on X…

I'm using lightening multiple times a month to pay miner host fees and other transactions

What self custodial lightning wallet would you recommend for beginners, not having to open and close channels?

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Mutiny seems pretty great.

Need more things to buy with lightning. Have lightning, but unless I give it away what do I buy? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I was like that before nostr

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I’ll sell you a piglet or a puppy!

Possibly a piglet. I need to build another pen first.

Phoenix from ACINQ is another option to play with.

Phoenix works pretty well for me and helps people understand seed words without dabbling too much on chain

Probably just HODLing, not spending.

Now you can get your getalby wallet up and running on your Wordpress site.. At least you can if you can figure out how.. Yes, I'm hoping someone knows the steps. I see the LN Publisher on the left hand strip near the bottom but I can't seem to find my wallet? Any clues from folks far more tech oriented than me?

I think LN was a night development, but I disagree with mass adoption... It's just not reliable. It must and it will get replaced by something better. Hopefully soon.

*nice development

I disagree about the reliability issues, but I do agree that it’s a bit technical for most people and would struggle to scale to more than a few hundred million people in the current way it’s constructed. ECash has a better chance at making it to 100% mass adoption (assuming that people don’t just prefer Bitcoin banks) but that would still use lightning as a gateway in most successful models.

i get it though. back in december, january, and february, i onboarded dozens and dozens of people that were hardcore bitcoiners but never used lightning. nostrplebs.com was their first lightning transaction ever. 🤯

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Writing a blog about "Lightning uses" is on my Todo List.

I can't wait to read it!

i would LOVE to see a Bitcoin conference display a live Zapathon. that would be crazy fun.

They made it sound like it doesn't exist or work yet

Roga was awesome. One of the best conferences.

no, you can purchase tickets with bitcoin.

There very possible. Just use Lightning dammit.

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