This could possibly be the proper second for Lightning to re-enter heart stage. The latest discourse of Bitcoin, as measured by headlines or crypto twitter, seems like a endless torrent of worth, worth, worth, Elon Musk, worth, China, worth, worth, Elon Musk. The Lightning Community, in a way, is the antidote to all that hypothesis frenzy. Lightning is about bitcoin being used, not simply devoured up by traders, and never simply as digital gold. “The concept that it’s merely a digital rock fails to faucet into the very nature of what bitcoin can do,” says Stark. “Bitcoin is programmable cash, and Lightning will help scale it to billions of individuals the world over.”