
Making the Lightning Network Noncustodial with Spiral's Steve Lee [Bitcoin Builders Excerpt]
The Breakdown
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The Importance of Non-Custodial Bitcoin Payments
I wholeheartedly agree. It's not hard to kind of watch the last few months of US regulatory engagement with the wider crypto sector and have even more of an instinct to push things towards sort of non-custodial solutions. Even if the sites haven't been set on Bitcoin currently I think it's there's plenty to be nervous about. One insight I've gained over time like several years ago is that demand actually can come from services themselves because they don't want to be a Bitcoin custodian or be regulated by the government. So for them to enable Bitcoin services without being regulated they'll want to support non-c Custodial Bitcoin and not custody people's funds.
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