⚡️ Xapo Bank, a leading #Bitcoin custodian and licensed private bank, is now using Lightspark to offer #Lightning based Bitcoin payments https://www.lightspark.com/news/lightspark-partners-with-xapo-bank

📢 #[0] Dorsey’s digital payment company Block Inc. will be using its own #Bitcoin reserves to provide liquidity to Bitcoin’s #LightningNetwork. Meet the new LSP: C= https://cequals.xyz https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqO1Sd4XoAk4y54?format=jpg&name=medium

🏦 Xapo Bank partners with Lightspark, becoming the 1st fully licensed private bank to offer #Bitcoin payments through #Lightning integration ⚡️ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqOyjekXoBk30lM?format=jpg&name=medium

Bitcoin belongs to no-one. Bitcoin belongs to everyone. #Bitcoin's unique decentralized nature allows it to transcend traditional financial systems controlled by governments, corporations, or individuals, making it a truly decentralized currency. By eliminating the need for government-issued fiat money, Bitcoin offers an alternative that mitigates some of the ills associated with centralized currency, such as inflation, government manipulation, and the funding of unnecessary, immoral, and destructive activities, such as wars. At the same time, Bitcoin retains the essential practical functions of money, enabling the voluntary exchange of goods and services, which facilitates prosperity and societal progress.

📊 My most used #bitcoin #lightning⚡️ channels have routed appr. 10-30x of their capacity both ways in a year. On the low end: 2-3x. The traffic is made up of a huge number of mostly micro: up to 1K sat ($0.2), and lots of small: up to 1M sat ($200) transactions. 🙌

🎙️ Vitor Pamplona on building the android #nostr app Amethyst on the Kevin Rooke show

📣 My First Bitcoin (Mi Primer Bitcoin), a #Bitcoin education program based in El Salvador 🇸🇻, has announced a new and improved diploma program in English. Download the student workbook here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xioqC2FNtrKLs7iIfTKbgGrzPlN9vanP/view

Founder and project lead of the hugely popular open source CMS Drupal 💧 #[0] on #nostr: “love at first sight...” 💜 A head-to-head comparison of Nostr and Mastodon/ActivityPub, and how #Bitcoin #Lightning Zaps ⚡️ could revolutionize social media.

Nostr, love at first sight

My initial impressions on Nostr, a head-to-head comparison of Nostr and Mastodon/ActivityPub, and how Zaps could revolutionize social media.

Why #Nostr is better than other popular social media services? 🤗 Permissionless: Anyone can create an account 🥷 Private: No phone or email necessary 🚫 Unbannable: You can’t be blocked 🟢 Unlimited: No follow limits 🔑 Ownable: You own your keys to your account 🐍 Long-form: Wordy notes are OK ⚡️ Financed: Integrated #Bitcoin #Lightning payments ✅ Verifiable: Attestation is freely available 📶 Quality: High signal, low noise 🍺 Free: No monthly payments for new features 🕊️ Free: Can change clients without losing account 💪 Robust: Multiple relays serve users 🍒 Customisable: Can choose your own set of relays 😇 Sovereign: Can run your own private relay ⚒️ Open Source: Simple and extendable protocol What did I miss?

🔥 On zaplife.lol you can track zaps across #nostr in real time. You can also see the top donors, top recipients, top notes, and even see zapraisers (fund raising system using nostr zaps) 😎 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqG5PxVaEAAzLR-?format=jpg&name=large

#Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement… The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value… Lot’s of people will build businesses on top of that. ~ Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google I wonder what he thinks of #Nostr. 🤔

🟧🟪 #Bitcoin and #Nostr can’t be stopped

The capacity to learn is a gift. Use it wisely! #bitcoin https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fp_MikEXwAAHezf?format=png&name=small

🤩 #[0] doesn’t kid around on #nostr. He’s stress testing the #bitcoin  #lightningnetwork⚡️ with hundreds of millions of sats. 👏👏👏 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqGggJnaUAE0LXz?format=jpg&name=medium

🤩 How long till we see the first pro influencers whose primary income will be zaps received for the content they create for the nostr audience?

📢 Core Lightning Community now open: https://community.corelightning.org #bitcoin #lightning ⚡️

~ How do you eat a #Bitcoin? ~ With one megabyte.

I have 20x more followers on Twitter compared to #Nostr and yet the engagement level is similar on the two. In other words nostr is 20x more signal. 📶 On Nostr I can also send and receive zaps. ⚡️ And I own my own key. 🔑 Pretty awesome experience overall. Well done folks! 👏 What’s your take on Twitter vs Nostr?

📢 The Breez Open-LSP Model: Scaling #Bitcoin #Lightning⚡️ by Sharing ROI with 3rd-Party LSPs https://medium.com/breez-technology/the-breez-open-lsp-model-scaling-lightning-by-sharing-roi-with-3rd-party-lsps-e2ef6e31562e

⚡️ #Lightning strikes through the noise: #Bitcoin's power, yours to rejoice!