You have to open and close channels with the lightning network, the average person can barely understand bitcoin as it is. The coin that wins will have to be fast, free and as easy or easier to use than a credit card. I hope bitcoin becomes all of those things but right now it looks unlikely
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I certainly hope details of opening a channel can be hidden under the hood so that the end user can deal with just the right level of abstraction. What the world needs is a sophisticated AI-powered multi-currency wallet with budgeting and analysis tools.
Yeh I hope you're right about that too and I know there are many smart people working on solutions, however, the fact that we're now at the stage of high fees and long confirmation times doesn't indicate that they have been doing a great job so far of scaling Bitcoin to be the fast, cheap, global currency we hope it can be
Bitcoin as it is will never be any of that. At best in might become a recognized store of value, which is no small feat.