I&#x27;d be a lot more excited about Lighting Mightwork if there were one, 1, ONE merchant accepting GreenAddress.<p>From a user perspective, the benefits of GreenAddress were similar (instant confirmation), and the hurdles to adoption were actually lower.<p>GreenAddress and Lightning each require both sides -- sender and receiver -- to use something different, and more complex, than a regular bitcoin transaction.<p>They both have to restart with 0 network effect.<p>GreenAddress never got anywhere with users.  Why will Lightning be any different?  Because bitcoin itself won&#x27;t work very well anymore?