Which is one side of why the Taro development is hopeful.

I think it's going to be a bit of a stretch to move people living in first-world countries away from the fiat mindset entirely, especially enough to begin adopting niche unpolished technologies like LN.

Fiat is here to stay for a few more decades barring some really extreme hyperinflationary event.

What we have is unsustainable and awfully unfair/etc, but not unacceptable to most of the masses. I mean we did go through a bunch of other unacceptable things recently and everybody accepted them, what's a few extra percentage points of inflation compared to being locked in your home for months?

Funny story, I recently accidentally saw a shop in my town having a "Bitcoin accepted here" sticker. They have it since 2014!!! And I never knew although it is a small-ish town. How crazy is that?