Bitcoin Lightning Network Merchant Adoption with Anthony Feliciano | Value Stack 39

Anthony Feliciano is a bitcoiner pushing forward merchant services adoption and the bitcoin circular economy. He hosts CryptoBeerKings popup meetups and is an early advocate of the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
This episode is a deep dive in the world of using bitcoin as a medium of exchange and unit of account, particularly in the context of businesses and merchants. We discuss the benefits of LN vs onchain, and roadblocks that lightning network must overcome.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
4:00 Reminiscing on early days of the Lightning Network
9:00 Challenges & importance of Lightning Network adoption
15:30 When to use Lightning versus on-chain bitcoin?
17:30 Can lightning network scale and be decentralized enough?
21:20 Teaching small businesses about bitcoin and lightning network
25:30 How to learn about bitcoin lightning network and other BTC Layer 2s
28:30 Are custodial lightning solutions a growing concern?
31:00 Importance of grassroots Bitcoin circular economy
36:00 Educating businesses on why bitcoin is better than credit cards
44:30 Lightning network inbound liquidity & other challenges to growth
56:00 The paradigm shift of seeing bitcoin as a unit of account
58:50 Teaching middle-schoolers about #bitcoin
1:12:00 What helped you see bitcoin's potential earlier than most?
1:15:00 The process of going down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
1:17:00 Building computers in the 1990s
1:20:35 The trilemma of privacy, sovereignty, and convenience
1:25:00 Learning Linux
1:31:30 Outro