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6 sats \ 9 replies \ @thrown 3 Mar 2022 \ parent \ on: What Happens When Millions of People Start Sending Each Other Sats for Great Content? bitcoin

Isn’t the Alby browser extension making it so you can have lightning in all browsers?

10 sats \ 7 replies \ @kr OP 3 Mar 2022

Right now I believe Alby is a Chrome extension, but could def see a native Lightning wallet built into other browsers too.

Notably, Impervious is launching their Lightning-native browser on April 7th, will be interesting to see what they've been building!

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @thrown 3 Mar 2022

I think the Impervious branding makes it dead in the water in terms of adoption.

But yes, the question will be if people want a separate browser or just an extension. Both have pros/cons.

Realistically, Chromium browsers are like 90% of the market though, right? I bet even Impervious is based on Chromium.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3 Mar 2022

They might've forked Firefox.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 3 Mar 2022

Agree regarding pros/cons of extension vs browser.

For me, I think the gold ring is full browser. Imagine fully integrated paid private services: vpn, voip, email, etc.

Also you could just do neat things that would be difficult otherwise, like during a standard ecommerce checkout, generate a virtual VISA on-the-fly (paying in background by LN) for merchants that don't yet support BTC/LN.

The hard thing about all of this is getting this into mobile space and thats where browser+extension may be the winner.