Fascinating write-up, thank you. In Vancouver we had tremendous success in the past year and half building a local circular economy. I'm still quite impressed how normal it has become at least among Bitcoiners to regularly spend Bitcoin. People know how important it is to kickstart a Bitcoin economy, and merchants are happy about the additional business.

There is some learning curve for users and merchants, but that's exactly why we are pushing for it. The tools are now good enough that we can use Lightning "in the wild", but not yet good enough for mass adoption. It is on us Bitcoiners to test and give feedback to those that build, because without us users, all the building and educating will be for nothing.