Bitcoin Lightning Network Merchant Adoption with Anthony Feliciano | Value Stack 39

Anthony Feliciano is a bitcoiner pushing forward merchant services adoption and the bitcoin circular economy. He hosts CryptoBeerKings popup meetups and is an early advocate of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. This episode is a deep dive in the world of using bitcoin as a medium of exchange and unit of account, particularly in the context of businesses and merchants. We discuss the benefits of LN vs onchain, and roadblocks that lightning network must overcome. ____________________________________ Check out CryptoBeerKings Support the show here, or by listening to the podcast directly on Fountain app! ____________________________________ Chapters

00:00 Intro 4:00 Reminiscing on early days of the Lightning Network 9:00 Challenges & importance of Lightning Network adoption 15:30 When to use Lightning versus on-chain bitcoin? 17:30 Can lightning network scale and be decentralized enough? 21:20 Teaching small businesses about bitcoin and lightning network 25:30 How to learn about bitcoin lightning network and other BTC Layer 2s 28:30 Are custodial lightning solutions a growing concern? 31:00 Importance of grassroots Bitcoin circular economy 36:00 Educating businesses on why bitcoin is better than credit cards 44:30 Lightning network inbound liquidity & other challenges to growth 56:00 The paradigm shift of seeing bitcoin as a unit of account 58:50 Teaching middle-schoolers about #bitcoin 1:12:00 What helped you see bitcoin's potential earlier than most? 1:15:00 The process of going down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole 1:17:00 Building computers in the 1990s 1:20:35 The trilemma of privacy, sovereignty, and convenience 1:25:00 Learning Linux 1:31:30 Outro