Lightstack

• Lightstack is a new docker-compose-based method for merchants who want to accept Lightning payments quickly and easily

Background

• Why is merchant adoption important for bitcoin’s success?
• Why is accepting Lightning as a merchant difficult, unless you trust a third party?
  • Why is trusting third parties with bitcoin a bad idea?
• Why is accepting on-chain bitcoin not viable for some merchants?

How does Lightstack work?

• What is a Docker image?
• What is Docker Compose? (see: https://github.com/massmux/lightstack/blob/main/docker-compose.yml.example)
• What is Phoenixd?
• What is LNBits?
• What are the tradeoffs between using this method vs more sovereign methods (bitcoin full node) and less sovereign methods (WoS)?

Preguntas

• What are some other Lightning point-of-sale systems?
  • Is Lightstack better or worse than these?
• What kind of person should use Lightstack?