The Blink API is currently being hammered with a huge amount of requests from a handful of IP addresses. Looks like there's people out there who really hate to see bitcoin being used as money ...

"Do everything possible to make it more accessible to do everyday payments. That's why I'm here" 🤝

Looking for open source slides to explain the basics of Lightning! What are some good ones?

Great to see more brand accounts on nostr. How do you manage sharing npub within your team? @OVO @Bisq any tools you can recommend?

Is there an easy way to stream a twitter space to nostr nests at the same time?

Saifrdean interview with John Dennehy (Mi Primer Bitcoin) - great insights and perspectives about bitcoin in El Salvador

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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast • 176. Mi Primer Bitcoin with John Dennehy • Listen on Fountain

John Dennehy, the CEO and founder of startup nonprofit Mi Primer Bitcoin, joins us to discuss bitcoin education and how they are teaching bitcoin t...

Today, I'm bearish on the entire bitcoin space (for the first time ever) Bitcoin is fine, nothing changed, but it seems I attributed a lot more intelligence to the leaders in this space than they deserve. "Leaders?" you may ask. Yes, there are no leaders in bitcoin, but there are in the Bitcoin Space, and I gave them way more credit than they deserve. Don't get fooled by fancy marketing friends. Keep your bullshit detectors fine-tuned and don't delude yourself with wishful thinking.

Testing Plebstr after update. Was broken when I 1st tried, now ok. UI feels good and clean generally. Dark mode available. Zap settings are great, allows setting of default LN wallet. I'll keep an eye on future updates for sure

I appreciate all panelists on the all-female panel at nostrica. The contributions and perpectives were great and valuable. But not a single NIP was discussed. Wtf?

Kicked back, watching Nostrica livestream, such great conversations. Massive fomo

If merchants could easily sell bitcoin over the counter for cash, it would - add new revenue stream (small commission for sale) - bring new customers who want to buy bitcoin - incentivize merchant to accept bitcoin for goods & services (replenishing bitcoin stock) - offer kyc-free bitcoin to customers - make bitcoin more easily accessible in more areas Anything else?

If you were curious to learn about what we do at Galoy and the stuff we work on, my amazing team mate and friend Andrew went on a 4h rip with DJ Satoshi on the legacy bird app https://twitter.com/agbegin/status/1631650204557377536

Unpopular truth: Many (most?) zaps on nostr aren't even Lightning transactions.

Looking at the Lightning addresses of folks on nostr, it seems the preference is for closed source lightning wallets. Why?