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by lowkey 1829 days ago
> How many people are actually using Lightning network in El Salvador at the moment?

My understanding is that they are onboarding something like 20,000 new users per day through community trainings and bootcamps.
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tsimionescu 1829 days ago
That's through Strike's app, right? I don't think that creates LN channels for everyone, LN is just an internal implementation detail for this centralized payment app.
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lowkey 1828 days ago
Strike is one option but certainly not the only one. With Bitcoin as Legal tender in El Salvador and Lightning fully supported as a payment network, users are not locked in to a single approved app.

Users can participate with any Lightning wallet such as the free and open BlueWallet.io app or any other Lightning app. No one is obligated to use Strike.

That is the beauty of free, own and interoperable standards such as Bitcoin or Lightning.

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