Bitcoin Q&A: Lightning User Experience and Adoption

00:00 How Will Mass Adoption of the Lightning Network Happen? 00:18 A blockchain will advance only as fast as its wallets do 01:07 Evolution of web browsers 02:53 A good wallet should hide the difference between Bitcoin and Lightning

How will Lightning mass adoption happen? Adoption depends a lot on how well built and user-friendly wallets are. A feature that's not in a wallet, does not exist at all for a user. A feature that's not easy enough to use, does not exist at all for a user. We can look at the development of the web browser to see how usability affects adoption.

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