⚖️ End of an Era: El Salvador Waves Goodbye to the Bitcoin Law This edition of #BitcoinCommerce Roundup covers major shifts and innovations: 🔹 El Salvador repeals the Bitcoin Law 🔹 Tether brings USDT to Bitcoin 🔹 Breez reports on the future of payments 🔹 Bitcoin Ordinals hit lows not seen since Feb 2024 🔹 Galoy’s new product aims to make Bitcoin banking easy 🔹 Plus, our meme of the week! 😁 👉 Read it here:

Bitcoin Commerce is coming to retail near you

Business adoption for in-person Bitcoin payments are gathering steam.

Shout out and thank you to the Puerto Rico Blockchain Trade Association for inviting us to speak to Puerto Rico about building with bitcoin and the Lightning Network! Thanks for all your work organizing the event and we were honored to take part 🙏

Catch our founder @HannahMR speaking on everything you can build with Bitcoin and the Lightning Network ⚡️ Happening today at the BUIDL Here conference in San Juan, PR! 🏝️ #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #BUIDLHere

We’re looking at meme of the week for this edition of our newsletter. Pretty sure this one will be the winner. Says it all 🙄 @Pleb Underground and Charlie Light thanks for this one!

Starting a #Bitcoin project this year? We’ve been building resources to help you hit the ground running: 📘 Bitcoin Test Network Guide:

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📘 2025 Lightning Service Provider Update:

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A Comprehensive Guide to Lightning Service Providers for Businesses and Developers (2025 Update) | Velas Commerce

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What else would help your project succeed? We're planning research for 2025 and would love your feedback! ⚡️

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🌍 Big Weeks for Bitcoin in Business: From Strategic Reserves to E-Commerce Wins Catch the latest in #BitcoinCommerce: 🔹 Brazil proposes a Bitcoin strategic reserve 🔹 Bitcoin payments soar in Bolivia after legalization 🔹 Vancouver eyes Bitcoin as a reserve asset 🔹 Namecheap hits 1.1M Bitcoin payments 💸 🔹 Call for stable banking in the US 🏦 🔹 Plus, our meme of the week! 😁 👉 Read it here:

Bitcoin Commerce is coming to retail near you

Business adoption for in-person Bitcoin payments are gathering steam.

Poem for the bitcoiners: With bitcoin at 100k, what would you like to build today? 🛠️

Hey Bitcoin and Lightning builders! If your project uses Lightning, consider integrating NOSTR Wallet Connect. It’s straightforward and unlocks a world of possibilities for your app. Interoperable wallets and apps make all our projects better— all at once ⚡️

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Check it out - routing node experiment in progress 🧪🥼 We’re upgrading our mainnet node using Terminal and Loop by Lightning Labs ⚡️ Terminal even supports batch channel opening and recommends channel partners - it’s making our job easy! Follow our progress here:

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Got a Bitcoin project idea? We build mobile apps, websites, custom wallets—whatever you need—and connect it all to Bitcoin, NOSTR, and Lightning ⚡️ We offer 4 hours of free scoping, cost estimation, and tech stack selection to get your project started. DM us and let’s build! 🛠️💻

Short week at Velas, but we’re building some cool stuff! 🔹 A new app with built-in Lightning tips via LNBits 🔹 Wallet connections for mobile using NWC & LNC 🔹 An e-commerce site bringing Austrian Christmas Markets to life with Bitcoin! 🎄⚡️ Happy holidays! 🛠️

Building Bitcoin apps with peer-to-peer payments, rewards, or zaps? The best UX often combines multiple tools thoughtfully. Here’s a quick guide to get started: User Wallets: 🔹Custodial (fast prototyping): LNBits 🔹Non-custodial (user nodes): Breez SDK, LDK Node Server Nodes: 🔹For rewards & offline payments: LND, Core Lightning, Phoenixd, AlbyHub Wallet Connections: 🔹Let users connect wallets: NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect), LNC (Lightning Node Connect) This is just the beginning—Bitcoin dev tools are out there. Let’s build! ⚡️

There’s a great feature in LND: Inbound Channel Fees⚡️ Node runners can now set fees on inbound and outbound payments, improving liquidity signals and help solving issues like 'outbound drains.' 🪙 This upgrade enhances capital allocation and routing efficiency on Lightning.

Inbound Channel Fees | Builder's Guide

Inbound channel fees allow node operators to more efficiently signal where liquidity scarcities occur. This improves capital allocation in the Ligh...

If your business has a social media presence, NOSTR is starting to make business sense. With NOSTR your business owns its profile, content and social graph. That means a more resilient investment for your business than otherwise possible on traditional social network platforms. If your business is on NOSTR, are you using analytics tools similar to those available on X? We’re curious for feedback.

Reflecting on a year of rapid progress in the Lightning Service Provider (LSP) space, with concepts emerging that weren't even on the radar last year: 🔹 Nodeless Lightning 🔹 Mixed Asset Service Providers (like edge nodes) Stay tuned—Lightning evolves fast, even before a BTC price surge⚡️

Continuing our mission to showcase awesome bitcoin projects from @npub1hyxe...tug7 - check out @Mostro 🧌 - a P2P Lightning exchange built on top of nostr! It’s a great combination of bitcoin + lightning network + nostr ⚡️

We met so many people building amazing projects at @npub1hyxe...tug7! 🎉 This week, we’re showcasing some of our favorites. First up: @Satlantis: Social Events NOSTR app! 🌍 Discover top cities to live and work, with insights on cost of living, infrastructure, Bitcoin community, and more. @San Juan Bit Devs—let’s get San Juan on this list! ⚡️

Huge shout out to everyone we connected with and to the amazing organizers at @npub1hyxe...tug7 🙌 We met incredible people working on awesome projects, and we’ll be sharing highlights throughout the week. The energy, content and events were top notch - can't wait for next year!

Estamos @Bitcoineando con Dani! Gracias por la invitación para hablar sobre Bitcoin en el mundo hispano, el ambiente bitcoiner en Puerto Rico y tecnología 🤓⚡️ Chequéalo aquí: