Imagine paying the baby sitter with "cash" but first you have to open a channel (stake bitcoin?) Then send it to them, then close the channel or something? I don't know how lightning works.) Then "settling" on chain (sounds like something banks do...) and paying a significant fee in the process?
Why can't payments just be settled when they are paid? Why can't you just take $20 of bitcoin out of your wallet and give it to the baby sitter and then she puts it in her wallet? (Use p2p digital cash as described in the white paper and in satoshi's correspondence?) Why would this be an expensive process that takes 10+ minutes to complete on a good day?)
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2026-03-19 18:19:36 UTC
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