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Jose Lemus (IBEX Mercado) on Lightning adoption in Emerging Markets

Episode 435 Published 2 years, 6 months ago

Jose Lemus, CEO and cofounder at IBEX Mercado, joins the show to talk Lightning and its growing usage in emerging markets. In this episode:

The origins of IBEX
How IBEX clients are using LN in emerging markets
How Lightning as a settlement layer for cross-border interbank payments
Lightning as a bridge currency
Why stablecoins make sense on Lightning
Why EM firms have an affinity for Lightning
IBEX's partnership with Grupo Salinas and how they are introducing Lightning to Mexican households
Lightning as an emerging remittance tool
Why Mexico is a good fight for Lightning adoption
Is Jose satisfied with Lightning's maturity as a protocol
How Bitcoin's market cap is the ultimate bandwidth for Lightning
Why Lightning reimagines the established batched payments model
Jose's answer to the biggest critique of Lightning at present