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Bitcoin Lightning is quietly moving into everyday payments.

Square has begun enabling Lightning payments for millions of merchants by default. No extra setup, just built in.

At the same time, tools like Boltz are enabling non-custodial swaps between Lightning and stablecoins without accounts or KYC.

So we now have two paths: • seamless mainstream adoption
• self-sovereign, privacy-first usage

Both are growing, but they don’t always align.

That’s the tension to watch. Convenience can easily come at the cost of control.

As Lightning becomes invisible in apps and payment systems, will people still choose sovereignty over convenience?

Jack Dorsey’s Block has flipped the switch on one of the most ambitious mainstream crypto integrations to date..

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