What do you buy with the lighting network? I've always wanted to try it.
You can tip people on the nostr protocol. stats are on zaplife.lol
you can tip musicians on wavlake
there's a Minecraft server called satlantis where it is used as a currency
there's a lot of plugins you can use to build your own lightning enabled apps on lnbits
the space is still young so a lot of software is beta, but there's plenty to play with
check out the plebdev course on udemy if you want to dive into lightning development
The one from Bloomberg comes to mind: "He tells me surfers sometimes ask if he’ll take Bitcoin. He’s taken it on a few occasions, but the dips in price burned him. “Now I tell them it’s $25 if they want to pay in Bitcoin,” he tells me. “You don’t know when it’s going to go down.” " [1].
That's also to say nothing of the leader of the nation potentially losing millions of public funds day-trading crypto on his phone, the Bitcoin Bonds that no one bought, or the IMF refusing to offer funding to the impoverished nation as a result of this callous fiscal policy.
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-17/world-s-b...