Lightning as Bitcoin’s Translation Layer
summary
Lightning powers a working translation layer called Tando that routes Lightning payments into M-Pesa, mapping a phone number to a lightning address like phone-number@bitcoin.co.ke via an SDK push PIN claim. Implementation uses LNURL and on‑chain Lightning rails, demos send sats (1000 sats received live) and recipients default to Kenyan shillings but can opt into Bitcoin. Claim costs 210 shillings and the target market is huge — about 40 million M-Pesa users reachable immediately.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Bitcoin and pizza intro
- 1:26Lightning translation layer
- 2:31Why Tando and Bitcoin gap
- 4:16Tando genesis and curiosity
- 6:22Building Tando challenges
- 8:09Bitcoin via phone numbers
- 10:36Tando key lessons
- 12:20Satoshi’s peer-to-peer vision
- 12:41Tando ecosystem expansion
- 15:53Q&A
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