I have a self-custodial desktop LN wallet connected to my full node running Core Lightning. Using it ...
I fund a mobile neutrino wallet called Blixt for walking around Bitcoin. Using it ...
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I fund a custodial Stacker News wallet so I can tip cool posts.
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I also use Blixt to tip and Zap people on Nostr.
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I also use it as a Lightning Address target for people that want to tip and zap me on nostr
So using all this software, I can permissionlessly transact how I want, where I want, outside banking hours, in whatever amount I want. I can open a channel using coinjoined bitcoin with a complete stranger. Bitcoiners at a meetup can pay me to build them a SeedSigner. With that bitcoin, I can zap someone, and in turn, someone can zap me on nostr for the lulz, and I can l, in turn, use that bitcoon to tip SN commentors for their insight.
Step back a minute. Think about this.
None of the people who write and maintain these pieces of software work for the same company. They don't have operating API license agreements with each other. None of them needed permission to write the software that touches our bitcoin. And all their software interoperates with each other.
And the end result? Pure, seamless electronic cash, slung around the world in peer-to-peer and face-to-face and value-for-value transactions.
Not a single bank involved.
We are SO winning.