Real life adoption happening in this sub

I’m sure by now you’ve seen the LN tips being slanged around in here via bot. There us also 4 or 5 other subs that allow this. However, I don’t think people realize the importance of what this really means.

You could tip people on Twitter, which didn’t really catch on. It goes thru 3rd party etc. Reddit also has karma which is incentive for quality. CC (who of course rejected the LN tip ability when it was offered this week) has Moons which is built into the sub and and you get issued Moons based on post and comment performance etc. This was pretty cool and they have actual value, but it’s automatic issuance, no one actually decides your post’s worth based on their perspective.

In comes these Lightning tips. This is not a platform that invited some kind of payment system for helping people based on individual user’s opinions. BTC and Lightning’s techincal abilities mixed with a market’s demands allowed this medium of exchange in a typically non-market place to come to fruition by simply using a bot to capture commands and communicate with Lightning. It it can be used almost instantly as buying power for anyone with a Lightning capable wallet.

This is as simple as a technical ability meeting a requirement of the free market. This isn’t some Moons getting distributed, this is someone deciding “Hey, I found this helpful or funny or whatever” and I want to give this complete stranger, from anywhere in the globe, REAL WORLD spending power, instantly.

Now think of every single application or platform in our world that could utilize accessory pathways for market-driven, trustless exchanges of value.

I feel BTC may be labeled as “old” to many who may fail to see the discovery aspect of it, but it’s truly so, so young in terms of being the first trustless peer to peer medium of exchange in human history. The table keeps getting better set. Progression, not perfection is what wins markets.