Don’t tell people to use Lightning
Don’t tell people to use Lightning
Here is why
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For someone living in a country with good mobile banking apps, like the Western world but also Brazil, the user experience on the Lightning network will be far inferior to their mobile banking app. And to be quite frank, apps like ‘Twint’ in Switzerland are as good as they get! You don’t need anything better. Revolut or Venmo might be in that category too, but I don’t use them enough to say. So, trying to orange-pill someone by saying that the Lightning network is great won’t cut it. To be honest, Lightning often does not work well, even in countries with decent telecom networks.
To convince someone to use the Lightning network, they first must be convinced of the value of bitcoin. To me, bitcoin’s greatest quality is censorship resistance, which I equate to the basic right to own something that nobody can take away from you or prevent you from using. To others, it is the hard money property of bitcoin or the property that mathematics does not lie. But until someone is convinced that bitcoin has intrinsic value, there is no point in trying to get them to use something that has a far worse UX than what they are currently using.
By the way, there is no point in trying to orange-pill people either. I prefer the term "educate." If someone is open to learning or understanding bitcoin, I am happy to explain it. If they don’t have an open mind, there is no point in continuing the discussion.
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