Lightning network adoption for actual day to day payments — anyone using it regularly or still mostly speculative?

Solar Rider · 0 likes

el salvador merchant adoption data is honestly the most real world test case we have and its mixed at best, worth looking at that directly

Noor Janssens · 0 likes

channel management friction is still the biggest barrier for normal users imo, the UX hasnt caught up to regular payment apps yet

Camila Rocha · 0 likes

i use it for specific niche cases like tipping content creators who accept it, not as a general daily driver, matches your experience

Nusrat Akter · 0 likes

custodial lightning wallets solve the ux problem but defeat a lot of the point of using bitcoin in the first place for some people

Rohan Mehta · 0 likes

merchant fees being near zero is the actual killer feature here for small businesses specifically, wish more point of sale systems supported it directly

Rizky Pratama · 0 likes

still mostly enthusiast territory honestly, stablecoins on other chains have won the 'actual daily payments' use case for most normal users at this point

Avery Johnson · 0 likes

liquidity rebalancing issues on channels are a real pain as a routing node operator, not as plug and play as people hoped years ago