Bitcoin Is Too Slow to Buy a Coffee - The Lightning Network Changes Everything and Almost Nobody Knows It Exists (Bit Coin, Wealth & Investing)

From Should I Invest in Bitcoin? Grow Your Wealth & Understand the Cryptocurrency Bit Coin, for Millennials Serious About Money and Investing by Myles Dhillon | Bitcoin Investing & Wealth Building

June 29, 2026 · 12 min

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The episode discusses the limitations of Bitcoin transactions and introduces the Lightning Network as a solution for instant and low-cost payments.

Bitcoin takes 10 minutes to confirm a transaction on the main blockchain. Visa processes 24,000 transactions per second. Bitcoin manages 7. That gap is real and for years it was Bitcoin's biggest weakness. The Lightning Network is the layer built on top of Bitcoin that most people, including a lot of Bitcoin holders, have never heard of. It makes Bitcoin transactions instant. It makes them essentially free. And in February 2026 it processed over a billion dollars in payments in a single month...

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