| I would be highly interested in finding a serious shop/commerce/ecommerc operation where Lighting Network is actually used. I check LN every 6 months or so and situation is not looking so great. As it was with Bitcoin itself in early 2010s the shops advertising crypto acceptance are doing it mostly for publicity/ideological reasons or actually have stopped existing. So I check: https://acceptlightning.com/map.html Random selection: * http://paraeasy.ch/joomla/ - Adobe Flash Player not supported ... * https://www.kaeserei-lustnau.ch - unclear if the shop actually takes any payments * https://shop.energy-kitchen.ch/#/shop - application not taking requests at this endpoint * http://www.room77.de/ - SMTP-packets to port 25 (info[at]room77.de) may very likely get a response just as much as electrons sent to our telephoney landline-device (+49.30.31102260). Single static page. * https://acceptlightning.com/rummels-acoustics.com - standard Bootstrap page - page not found Finally I find - https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/graphs
This looks like a serious operation - and lighting network is used quite a bit for smaller transactions. Unfortunately, this is something that would be of interest only to someone who already owns BTC or some other crypto. If you are Joe Sixpack you have very little reason to pay with crypto because it will be more expensive than paying with Visa/MC/Paypal etc. So where are the successful use cases that utilize Lighting Network? |