Bitcoin Lightning just took a big step towards mainstream use.
Square has enabled Lightning payments for around 4 million merchants, allowing instant, low-fee Bitcoin transactions through existing point-of-sale systems.
At the same time, Lightning is already processing over $1 billion in monthly volume, showing real-world demand for fast, low-cost payments.
This looks like adoption, but there’s a deeper layer.
If most payments are auto-converted to fiat, then users are not really interacting with Bitcoin as sovereign money.
That makes self-custody and self-hosting even more important.
Read links below.
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/307298888835250
https://ourcryptotalk.com/news/square-activates-bitcoin-lightning-payments-for-4m-merchants-today
If Bitcoin becomes a background payment rail, will you still choose to control your own keys?
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