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GM. Coffee's on, phone's already open to the timeline, and somewhere a payment just landed in under a second.

That's the whole appeal of the Lightning Network in one small, absurd image: a croissant paid for faster than you could dig out a card. No terminal lag, no please wait, no small talk with a payment processor. Just a tap and it's done, and you're back to your coffee before you've had time to think about it.

Breakfast shouldn't be a use case. And yet.