Capital gains tax make it hard to pay with Bitcoin, so the network is not used as much as it could be, but Lightning Network is improving continuously (there ar

Capital gains tax make it hard to pay with Bitcoin, so the network is not used as much as it could be, but Lightning Network is improving continuously (there are still lots of interesting and important developments going on that can scale it up). The first real world usage that is happening in real time is remittance. It’s really hard to remit money between countries (it takes days to send money from EU to US for me, and my bank asks for $20).