The Lightning Network – Bitcoin’s ultimate scaling solution. In less than a decade, it has grown from a small experiment into an enterprise-ready payments solution that powers 25% of CashApp’s bitcoin transactions.

And yet, in spite of Lightning’s growing enterprise adoption, people sometimes say things like “Lightning self-custody doesn’t work”. And how can we blame them for saying this? At conferences and on podcasts, you’ll hear people saying that Lightning is more like a “glue” that binds together other bitcoin protocols. “Lightning isn’t for users, it’s just infrastructure”.

While it’s true that Lightning helps to bind together many different bitcoin protocols and companies, it doesn’t end there. I argue that Lightning isn’t only for settlements between big players. Lightning-self custody works for end-users.

But before I describe why it works, I want to first dispel some of the things that do not work.

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