This holiday season, consider supporting #BitcoinCommerce by spending some sats! Behind every Bitcoin checkout is a business building an open, inclusive financial future. Merry Christmas, and thanks for supporting the builders🎄

What can you build with Bitcoin? 💸 Payments 🏦 Fintech 🏆 Rewards 👛 Wallets 🆔 Decentralized ID 🗄️ Proof of Ownership 🤖 AI monetization 10+ years building Bitcoin apps—and we’re just getting started. Full article:

What Can You Build with Bitcoin?

Our biz has been building Bitcoin projects for over 10 years now! We started out specializing in Bitcoin payment integration for e-commerce sites d...

Square looks serious about Bitcoin. They're exploring Bitcoin payments for merchants using their POS terminals. If you're a business that wants this, sign up for the pilot here: 👇

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Square Bitcoin Payments Pilot Sign-Up

Please add your information below to provide interest in Square's bitcoin payments pilot coming in 2025.

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Hey hey, check it out! 🎉 We’re excited to welcome npub1a4za3zcax35dckjy4ps32fqqatyuvzfnxfrnrq5rpuersnm072wsua2egl as our new Business Development Lead at Velas Commerce! Krystal brings great energy and shares our mission of helping businesses build with Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Say hi to Krystal and learn more about what we’re building: 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/krystal-johnston/ 📧 krystal@velascommerce.com

Building bitcoin features into Node.js or the browser? Check out bitcoinjs which supports transactions, addresses and more. 🔗Github:

bitcoinjs-lib - v7.0.0

Documentation for bitcoinjs-lib

📚 Docs:

bitcoinjs-lib - v7.0.0

Documentation for bitcoinjs-lib

But don't take our word for it. Don't trust, verify.

Sneak peek into the next edition of the #BitcoinCommerce roundup. Swiss shoppers can buy groceries with #Bitcoin at Zug’s Spar Supermarket ⚡ Don’t miss it, sign up here 👉

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Spar supermarket in Switzerland starts accepting Bitcoin payments

A Spar in Zug, Switzerland is the latest among the over 1,000 businesses to adopt Bitcoin payments in the country.

We’re updating the Bitcoin for Developers course and (re)discovered this gem: Why run a Bitcoin node? 👇 Being part of the revolution starts here: #Bitcoin #BitcoinDev

Bitcoin startups are going big - over $ 1.1 billion raised in 4 years! And it’s happening against a backdrop of decline in other crypto project investments, according to research by TVP. We cover this and more in our latest #BitcoinCommerce Roundup. Read it here:

Bitcoin Startups Going Big: 🦄 Over $1.1 Billion Raised

Bitcoin-focused startups have raised some serious funding and show more resilience to downturns than their crypto counterparts.

Highly recommend this interview with @bitcoinplebdev on @Pleb Underground 🎙️ Builders are creating apps with NOSTR using fresh ideas from the ground up. PlebDevs is an great example and a resource for Bitcoin & Lightning devs. ⚡️ Watch here: And check out:

PlebDevs

PlebDevs

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Congratulations to the winners of the 10th wave of OpenSats NOSTR grants! Got a Bitcoin, Lightning or NOSTR project looking for grant funding? OpenSats is one of several organizations that fund open source development in Bitcoin!

OpenSats

Tenth Wave of Nostr Grants

OpenSats is funding seven more open-source projects advancing the nostr ecosystem.

We put together a list here:

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List of Bitcoin Open Source Developer Grants | Velas Commerce

Curated list of open source developer grants for Bitcoin & Lightning projects. Find funding opportunities to make Bitcoin even better!

Contributions welcome:

GitHub

GitHub - Velas-Commerce/bitcoin-dev-grants: Community-maintained list of Bitcoin and Lightning open-source developer grants.

Community-maintained list of Bitcoin and Lightning open-source developer grants. - Velas-Commerce/bitcoin-dev-grants

Hey NOSTR—We're developing an open-source Lightning course and looking for a fully online (browser-based) instance of Lightning Polar. Think 'Polar meets Replit'—usable from anywhere, even public computers. Any leads or ideas appreciated⚡️

What will boost Bitcoin Lightning Network adoption? @Bitcoin Breakdown ⚡ just ran an interesting poll: Sounds like onboarding more merchants and improving wallet UX are key priorities. Check it out ⚡

We’re in the middle of some e-commerce Lightning node updates and it’s amazing to see the progress that’s been made in such a short time! Tools like @npub155m2...dcvg and #NWC are making Bitcoin friendly for e-commerce sites like never before⚡

⚖️ 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:

Velas Commerce

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

2025 Update - Discover how Lightning Service Providers (LSPs) simplify Bitcoin Lightning Network integration for businesses and developers, enablin...

📘 2025 Lightning Service Provider Update:

Velas Commerce

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

2025 Update - Discover how Lightning Service Providers (LSPs) simplify Bitcoin Lightning Network integration for businesses and developers, enablin...

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

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