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I want to use the lightning network... but what for?

191 sats \ 18 comments \ @n00n 5h lightning

WHY WOULD I DO THAT?! I DON'T NEED IT!!

I'm sorry for this dumbass title, but I hope to stir some discussion. I recently started a small lightning node. Initially it was just to connect my wallet and be my own bank. Then I started wondering about routing and passive income, but there is no passive income to make without a very active node.

Active node means one being actually used and not just be another unnecessary "well-connected" routing node. So I thought "how can I myself increase the load on the node, what usecases are there for me?"

I literally found zero use cases. I pay everything in my life with fiat money. I even receive a cashback on it, instead of having to pay for fees (yeah I know, they put that on the products directly).

I am being my own bank, I have a fully working infrastructure that would work off-fiat. But I'm not really using it.

Do you maybe have some ideas, apart from "using bitcoin at a store" (I would only consider this option outside my country)? I get the "using bitcoin" thing in 3rd world countries with tons of inflation, but maybe there are some cool use cases even for me, who doesn't need lightning to pay anything and only ever did it as a gimmick, like "heyy you support bitcoin at your chicken stand! Let me try it!".

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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Kontext 3h

A business run by a proper Bitcoiner will give you a bigger discount for using BTC than any cashback or loyalty system ever will.

Also, @justin_shocknet is right. Lead the way.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @n00n OP 2h

What I find is usually the opposite, producers asking sats for their products are usually more expensive.

69 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5h

I literally found zero use cases. I pay everything in my life with fiat money. I even receive a cashback on it, instead of having to pay for fees (yeah I know, they put that on the products directly).

Do you maybe have some ideas, apart from "using bitcoin at a store" (I would only consider this option outside my country)? I get the "using bitcoin" thing in 3rd world countries with tons of inflation, but maybe there are some cool use cases even for me, who doesn't need lightning to pay anything and only ever did it as a gimmick, like "heyy you support bitcoin at your chicken stand! Let me try it!".

Nice bait, mate. You trying to be a troll? Obviously, there's no use for medium-of-exchange technology if you don't plan to use bitcoin as a medium-of-exchange. What you said is basically tautological.