⚡ STATE OF LIGHTNING

The State Of Lightning One Year After El Salvador’s Bitcoin Adoption
By Namcios

It’s been a little more than a year since El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as a national currency. Such a disruptive progress in Bitcoin adoption terms wouldn’t have been possible without the development of the Lightning Network.
An entire nation would have never been able to adopt Bitcoin for every day micropayments if it wasn’t possible to transact with it instantly and cheaply. The Lightning Network has achieved that with Bitcoin while also helping El Salvador in its adoption. One year later, there are enough evidential metrics indicating that the Lightning Network has also benefited from El Salvador’s bet on Bitcoin.
The author of this article describes the synergy that Lightning and El Salvador have had for more than a year now and how its scope has reached far beyond its borders.

💻 PRIVACY

The Energy Crisis Will Turn The Money Printers Back On, But Only Bitcoin Can Solve It
By Anthony Feliciano

Your smartphone is a spying tool. Its components include cameras, sensors and microphones that watch and monitor our every move, emotion and action. When you agree to the “terms and conditions” to use Google or Apple services, you’re giving them access to every aspect of our life, both private and public. There is a reason you can’t use their software or hardware if you don’t agree to their terms.
We can not stress enough the importance of privacy when it comes to freedom. Authoritarians disguise themselves as protectors and demand to know everything about us to keep us under control. No matter how much you think you have nothing to hide, you do. And there are many reasons why others want to keep an eye on you.
Privacy is a right, we all should remember, and not take it lightly or sacrifice it for convenience.

📰 THE DAILY BITS

Bitcoin's Accumulated Momentum Is Going To Be Hard To Stop
By Marty Bent

Global markets have been subjected to the manipulation of a few individuals, while having a broader effect on billions of people. The macroeconomic experts know and often discuss, how our current system seems to be doomed for failure, driven by incompetent central planners. Somehow they are left with nothing more than analyizing and speculating which solution will we end up being provided by the same central planners who got us into this mess.
Bitcoiners are different though. The community scans the horizon and builds the future they want to live in. With enough experience living through a economy with fiat currencies, Bitcoiners know that the only way forward is to continue to act and bring a distributed, censorship resistant, sound money into the world; Bitcoin.

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