You could if anyone accepted lightning. But the fact is you couldn't do that with BCH, Monero, or anything else, either. There isn't "zero adoption" -- there's "zero merchant acceptance", because accepting ANY crypto is a pain in the ass (the tech, the security, the employee training, the taxes...)
Bootstrapping circular economies is HARD, especially when the current system is "good enough".
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Lightning has a lot more issues than just merchant adoption.
I’m not even a Monero shill, but it’s pretty funny when even layer 2 Bitcoin isn’t as functional as layer 1 Monero. Maybe layer 3 can compete with it though
I can't argue with that, but Monero may be even harder for a business to adopt, because they have to atomic swap for Bitcoin, incur and track that capital gain, then swap their Bitcoin for fiat, and incur another capital gain (since Monero is difficult to exchange directly for fiat). All assuming they don't want to just accumulate Monero and don't have anywhere to spend it.
It's not the tech, security, employee training or taxes. It's that prices aren't stable because no cryptocurrency has a mechanism to adjust the supply of money in accordance with goods and services offered in the economy.
