Maybe. The steps to adoption have been debated since Bitcoin's inception. Narratives shift over the cycles and no one really knows what will end up as the dominant use case.
Only way to find out is to wait and see.
Jameson Lopp
npub17u…wt4tp
2026-02-17 13:42:54 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…z533
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