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Sure. Stablecoins is merely a banking on top of Bitcoin.
They are for payments and since we don't have powerful derivatives markets for example for soybeans, they are the only reliant option for business people.
You praise for peaceful revolution meanwhile reacting on every possible positive action quite aggressively if it is not fitting some template.
be careful.
it may start trading shitcoins.
SolvBTC is one of the small wrapped bitcoin projects. Said wallet is also little known to me.
Overall we did some research on bitcoin tokens,
https://satsbridge.docsend.com/view/etzu5mxycr9rhuz4
Just searched it in SN for merely saying how is it not yet a meme about bitcoiners instead of left activists.
There was a EU project from Germany, probably even from the 1st wave of LN projects. A guy made possible to use LN to pay for EV charge at many different stations.
Well, there is some truth in it.
Even when I meet people who use "multicoin" wallets which may be simply custodial services, I think that Bitcoin properties as p2p protocol and self sovereign tool becomes somehow diluted by the amount of coins that simply can't be run on a client locally.
For me it was always a bit uncomfortable to use browser based wallets. Especially when I need them few times a year when somebody for some reason would reject to pay in BTC. Meanwhile connecting browser wallet and hardware wallet is just very bad in terms of UX. This is why I find using LNURL-Auth very convenient and this is why we have developed vault.satsbridge.com.
El Salvador is bad example as almost any example where government forced something onto people. But it at least better than eNaira.
About the infrastructure, it is a critical thing. See report about blackouts in Ukraine vs capacity of the network.
https://notgeld.medium.com/war-and-lightning-network-86f30cdc5c09
About the first thesis, it seems adoption of LN correlates with adoption of Bitcoin. You can look at ATMs map and see disparity across the regions.
20% of users (dev's words on hearings) is substantial.
There is a caveat that Dojo wasn't around from day one. So it may be 20% of users at the moment of their arrest.
You are right these are heuristics. However they may be amended with data from other sources.
Wasabi was great to address issues of WabiSabi in multiple versions.
Some time ago people told me that some vendors do use LN for settlement. But I didn't see any proofs so far. The question is though, will we be able to obtain any proofs about that if it is used in a private way.