The best way to get actual humans to adopt Bitcoin is to make every aspect of it easily accessible on mobile devices.
Mobile penetration is the easiest route to an exponential human Bitcoin adoption.
IMMORTAN Library is a mobile-focused lightning library that makes it possible to have lightweight lightning nodes on Android devices. Ensuring that people can set up and use Lightning in self-custodial mode with very few resources and less node management headache.
Immortan Library is robust, with extra privacy features via private channels and rotating node IDs.
Nodes do not depend on any custodial setup or LSP cloud service to open channels and perfom other Lightning activities.
Valet Bitcoin wallet, on the other hand, is an Android self-custodial Bitcoin/Lightning wallet where IMMORTAN library has been implemented and is functional.
Valet is the fork of the Simple Bitcoin wallet (SBW), which no longer supports Lightning.
More mobile wallet developers should be able to adopt these technologies in order to make Bitcoin accessible to normal users. This is what would scale wide self-custodial Bitcoin adoption.
For instance, anybody who wants to fully live on a Bitcoin standard without ever interacting with the Fiat rails could do this by just downloading and using Valet.
Valet has
- Bitcoin on-chain wallets
- Self-custodial Lightning nodes - robust with an advanced build to drastically reduce forced channel closures.
- Real-time Lightning usage volume data tracking
- Hosted channels - A community-focused, custodial, and anonymous lightning channel protocol specification that enables fast and cost-effective onboarding to Lightning.
- Fiat channels - particularly designed for merchants and users who do not want to bear the challenges of Bitcoin volatility. Fiat channels are a type of custodial lightning channel that preserves the Fiat value of sats received on this channel via a hedge mechanism on the Host side. PS: Anyone can self-run a node and be a Host to themselves.
The community must adopt these approaches to improve Bitcoin's adoption and get tools like Valet more popular and in the hands of normal people.
Links:
IMMORTAN: https://github.com/standardsats/immortan
VALET: https://github.com/standardsats/valet/releases
HOSTED CHANNELS: https://github.com/standardsats/hosted-channels-rfc
FIAT CHANNELS: https://github.com/standardsats/fiat-channels-rfc
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