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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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(nostr: ben @nostr .com) #bitcoin FOSS hobbyist, advocate "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" @lnbits

Wales, United Kingdom

https://t.co/ohTEegBZVB

Joined June 2012

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 month

Bye @twitter . I used to love this platform, but recently the experience has tanked 💀. The ad bullying toward premium, untransparent and unstable algorithm makes this not a place of freedom, just depressing to use. Ill be over at #nostr (ben @nostr .com), and back when its fixed 👍

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Buying a coffee from @McDonalds using #bitcoin !🚀 Incredible work @OpenNodeCo for helping them integrate #LightningNetwork payments!!! 👏👏👏

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Introducing #bitcoinPoS ! 🥳🚀 Completely free and open-source #bitcoin point-of-sale, that can do: - offline AND online #LightningNetwork - Onchain (using xPub) - LNURL-withdraw for refunds and OTC! 🤩 All now configurable through an easy access-point🤯

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Introducing #LNURLVend !🤩 Completely OFFLINE #bitcoin LN Vending Machine. Video tut coming soon! Will be accompanying me to @advbitcoin and @TheBitcoinConf 💪 Check out the repo, and build your own! (same method could be applied to most vending machines)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Very excited to announce the release of a HUGE #FOSSA DIY #bitcoin ATM update, now includes bill-acceptor, and is SO VERY easy to build 🤩 💪 🚀

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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I'm surprised @elonmusk hasn't decided to build a renewables #bitcoin mining operation... prob because there is no gov subsidies to be had

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Released a new #bitcoinSwitch update 🥳, It's now blazingly fast thanks to its own @lnbits websocket 🔥. Turn all the things on with #bitcoin ! (around $5 to make)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

The #bitcoin offline point of sale device workshop made it onto national TV! 🤩 It's been a privilege to visit the beautiful country of El Salvador 🇸🇻 and share some of the wonderful free and open source projects we have been building.

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Preparing for my #bitcoin talk in Zurich

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Introducing the worlds first Nostr Signing Device! 🗝️Protect those keys🗝️

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Seriously, bitcoiners need to be aware of the battleground they are on. We are challenging the worlds power structures. This epoch is when the fight begins. There are MANY internal forces here to stagger the growth of #bitcoin , no matter how much 'they' sound and look like us..

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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As the official UK delegation, it was my honour and privilege to meet the wonderful El Salvadorian Ambassador for UK @ESAenReinoUnido , to discuss #bitcoin and @adoptingbtc 🇸🇻🤩 Demoed @lnbits and #LNURLPoS , which I will be running workshops for at the conference💪

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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WTF @BusinessInsider , ignore the ACTUAL story of #nostr as a free press commons with infinite scope to make the world better, and write a hit piece doxxing an identity, just to show how clever you are finding a name. What a shitrag.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Managed to smuggle all the gizmos through customs Ready for @TheBitcoinConf

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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I used to think any #bitcoin conference worth its salt needs a workshop area, now it must have kids area. We had kids build their own hwws, bitcoinswitches, and presenting projects! @BitcoinAtlantis has set a new bar for what constitutes a great conference 🔥🔥🔥

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Had a crazy realisation. Ebay only has 50m users, and amazon 300m, because its restricted by bank accounts. Really it should have 3bn users like facebook. Nos_tr-market is the most powerful "bankless" digital market, so can only win. 6bn people have smartphones, 6bn!

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

When you go to CBase in Berlin and people are paying for drinks with their #bitcoin nfc rings on an @lnbits android PoS 🍻 This has made my month 🤯

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Made that £200 #FOSSA DIY #bitcoin ATM out of a cheap safe, I talked about on @WhatBitcoinDid @PeterMcCormack . Will bring to Bedford soon 👍

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Made a cheap <$8 version of the #LNURLPoS (offline #bitcoin point of sale)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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#DIY #bitcoin hardware wallet, with Morse code passphrase, on @M5Stack , hiding behind #Tetris ! Built using @StepanSnigirev wonderful #uBitcoin library 💪 🚀 ⚡️ 🤯 Tutorial coming soon...

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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What's with all the #LightningNetwork doom/gloom? Having scaling issues is a good problem to have. Stop being defeatist.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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I think this is my favorite table that has ever existed

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Wow, the PoS extension in @lnbits works flawlessly with a #Boltcard also made in @lnbits 😍 Non-custodial #bitcoin PoS and NFC tap/pay win 🔥

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

WOW, coffee vendor from el sal @CheritoCafe is using @lnbits TPoS at @LuganoPlanB to sell coffee, THEN using the splitpayments extension to split funds across producers 😍. This is EXACTLY why we made splitpayments, at Point of Sale payment split across production. Amazing!

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Consolidated a few of my older projects into #bitcoinSwitch , a cheap and simple unit for turning anything on with #bitcoin 🚀, with OR without a screen. Tutorial for easily retrofitting 3 cheap/fun gizmos to accept #bitcoin coming soon 🦾

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

HUGE #bitcoinSwitch update. Turn ANYTHING on with #bitcoin @lnbits , beer-taps, coffee machines, lights, candy dispensers, vending machines, arcades, flame-throwers, etc, etc... Only $5 worth of hardware + INSANELY easy install, as easy as Lego 🔧🚀🚀🚀🤯

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bitcoinSwitch EASY BUILD with websockets!

Websockets, multiple GPIOs, a brand spanking new web-installer/web-config!https://github.com/lnbits/bitcoinSwitch

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

"It's like people only do things because they get paid. And that's just really sad."

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Completely disagree, #LightningNetwork is still beta af/work in progress/mvp. Just look at lack of node-management software, auto-pilot solutions, channel factories, etc. Many improvements to be made. LN we have now is maybe 5% of whats possible. So much to look forward to ⚡️🚀🥳

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Get paid for running a #nostr relay! In just a few mins I spin a fresh @lnbits and create a paid #nostr relay using the #nostrrelay extension 🚀 (x2 video speed for twitter)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

5 years

Made #TheFossa , a #bitcoin #LightningNetwork ATM for @tcconf_ro and @LNconf , as an easy way for people to dump fiat & stack sats Make your own, only £50! (tutorial coming soon)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

Using #nostr NIP-19 in #nostrmarket you can now publish a list of merchant public keys, market theme, logo and a banner to auto-populate and theme a nostr marketplace.🤩 Outstanding work @talvasconcelos @motorina0

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Bringing 80 #LNURLPoS kits for workshops at @AdoptingBTC !!! 🇸🇻💪 Can't wait to see them in the wild being used for digital payments by unbanked merchants 🤯 Workshop/kits will be free! Make sure you come and see us at the incredible hackspace the conference has organised 😍

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Updated OFFLINE #bitcoin vending machine #bitcoinVend to allow 9 products (for bigger machines), and work with @lnbits updated #LNURLDevices plugin 🚀

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Cashu, #bitcoin pegged Chaumian Ecash in @lnbits ? 🤔 (watch until end! 🤯)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Words can not describe the satisfaction in building a #foss decentralised @twitter on #nostr protocol that uses #schnoor signatures and having it actually work! 🚀 It's not even MVP, very buggy, but I just had my first actual private decentralised conversation 💪

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Make NSDs not NFTs

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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The new SplitPayments extension in @lnbits is beautiful Imagine a salesperson receiving their commission immediately in their wallet, at the point of sale, or a joint venture/coop where EVERY participant receives their value output with every value input Simple and VERY profound

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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. @saylor is an attack on #bitcoin and cypherpunk ideology. This is not just another wall street plaything, it's value exists from pursuit of apolitical, private MoE.

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Medium of exchange is a distraction? I swear the title of the white paper was. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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A very short/easy #bitcoinSwitch tutorial using the new web installer by @dnilabs . Turn anything on with #bitcoin 🚀🚀🚀 (now as easy as building lego!)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Why coin mixing is a risky temporary fix and NOT the solution. #bitcoin must be completely private/zero-knowledge to be fungible.

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Bitfinex'ed 🔥🐧 Κασσάνδρα 🏺

3 years

Another happy BlockFi customer.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Wow, 2 years ago 🤯

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

4 years

Made a decentralised @twitter client on the #NOSTR protocol! 💪😘 Post and encrypted DMs with #Schnoor signatures/keys Checkout live here ! (MVP, for testing purposes only)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Get your #LNURLPoS kit from the official @lilygo9 store! 💪😍

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LILYGO® LNURLPoS T-Display Keyboard Kit ESP32 Wireless Module 1.14 Inch LCD Display Controller...

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

@BitcoinConfEUR @Nigel_Farage Very disappointed. He has nothing to do with #bitcoin and is incredibly polarising in Europe. I have euro-centric telegram groups full of people saying they may cancel attending now. What an awful decision

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Wtf @BitcoinConfEUR Why book such a polarising speaker? So many Europeans hate this man.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Made it to El Salvador 🥳🚀, having an impromptu #Taproot party with @MikaelFloden !🍻 What a great way to start the week!

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Some direct action happening in @TheBitcoinConf #DirtyFiatIntoBitcoin

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Setup a competing "buy bitcoin" stamp shop in @AdoptingBTC hotel lobby @fulmolightning 🖕

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

n o s t r is the "everything app" of freedom Unlike X/wechat you can freely associate with different software (mostly free and open source), and you can control your own data. Yay for free press/freedom of association/freedom of movement 🥳

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

I think this itsy bitsy completely DIY card sticker vending machine (based on #bitcoinSwitch , but with nfc!), by @steefbtc , is my current favorite thing 🤗

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

I've said for years best way for state to attack #bitcoin , is to attack it's lack of fungibility. One day we will have zero-knowledge privacy on base layer, and this is why.

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Everyone should read @brian_trollz 's article on the new FinCEN rules. We have 90 days to respond. They want every transaction tracked. "FinCEN Proposes Insane Special Measures"

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Yo #bitcoin , Very proud to announce #where39 ! Use #BIP39 words to locate anywhere in the world! For treasure/drop gangs/p2p x4 words give 5m2 accuracy x5 words give 2ft2 accuracy

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

I get WAY too much mention in this article, diagon-alley was one of bunch of things to influence #nostr , but reading, I am eternally grateful to have @fiatjaf as a mentor and friend, and being able to be part of this journey.

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Meet @Fiatjaf, The Mysterious Nostr Creator Who Has Lured 18 Million Users And $5 Million From Jack...

Disenchanted with his online options, the reclusive programmer tells Forbes how he designed a chat-and-payment service for people who dislike corporate control. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has...

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Started making Podcast 2.0 extension for @lnbits #value4value supporting LNURL-pay/LNAddress would make it much more useful 🤔

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

Here we have @JeffBooth sat on a flattening thing at @realbedford . What else should Jeff sit on?

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Cliché, the #bitcoin LN "lite node" is amazing 😍 ✅Download ✅Install ✅Get hosted-channel inbound liquidity All in less than 2 minutes! (and I'm slow at typing)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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N o s t r dot com for sale! $5m, offer ends 20th Sept, at which point it will come under the umbrella/management of LNbits Inc for 3 years. (If sold, I commit to 10% going to fiatjaf, and 10% towards LNbits development). DM or email ben at lnbits dot com if interested.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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Under $15 offline #bitcoin #LNURLPoS going well! Hardware/software made, now I just need to make the @lnbits extension 🔧 Because it's completely offline it works blazingly fast 🤩 (Once customer pays their wallet will display the same pin)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Just updated covert #bitcoin #bowser hardware wallet, and took it out of beta! 💪🚀

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Launching #SpotifyJukebox , a new @lnbits extension that allows you to easily/quickly spin up a jukebox for your bar or cafe, and share your @Spotify playlists for #bitcoin ! 🎶 💪🚀

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SpotifyJukebox, quickly/easily spin up a jukebox for your bar/cafe

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

Sex work is a killer use case for #bitcoin /nos_tr that we don't actively develop enough free and open-source software/hardware for. If anyone is interested in joining our "bitcoin for sex workers" research/development group connecting devs/contributors/users, please DM.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

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N o s t r Market: The problem of censorship-resistant, decentralised markets has been solved. Just published a short tutorial of our @lnbits N o s t r Market clients built by @motorina0 🚀🎉

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Nostr Market: Decentralized/Censorship-Resistant Markets

The problem of decentralized markets has been solved. Nostr Market is the bankless international ecommerce commons, built on Nostr: the Everything App of Fre...

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Boom! $10 @lnbits free and open-source DIY #bitcoin hardware wallet 🤩🔧🙌 ✅ Cheap ✅ Very easy to build ✅ Airgapped OR over web-serial ✅ Uses hardware RNG

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$10 bitcoin Hardware Wallet, DIY/FOSS/ESP32/easy build!

Includes web installer for easy build https://github.com/lnbits/hardware-walletUses the incredible library https://github.com/micro-bitcoin/uBitcoin Join us!...

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Boom! $8 DIY #bitcoin hardware wallet being used with @lnbits updated onchain wallet extension 🚀 Incredible @motorina0 , just incredible

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

NIP-15 (formally NIP-45) Nostr Marketplace (formally diagonalley) merged 🚀🚀🚀 Perfect timing, a bunch of clients want to implement, like this poll by lead #amethyst dev 🤯

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

Started #nostrmesh : up to 20 MBit/s, microcontroller, #nostr powered, self-healing mesh network. Been thinking/getting excited about this project for a while! (made possible by @blackcoffeebtc excellent nostr-arduino library) Code to follow soon 🚀🚀🚀

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GitHub - lnbits/nostrmesh: microcontroller mesh

microcontroller mesh. Contribute to lnbits/nostrmesh development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

. @CryptoCloaks can you arrange some printers to @TheBitcoinConf hackspace🙏? I'll be bringing 75 #lnurlpos kits for workshops 💪 This way folks could get device ready for the wild

@CryptoCloaks

CryptoCloaks™

3 years

This thing is incredible. Simple and powerful POS terminal. Shout-out to - @arcbtc for @lnbits and more! - @Adamsimecka for helping us get it setup and send us all the necessary hardware to test - @blackcoffeebtc for the case stls for testing #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

Quit coffee, tobacco, beer for a week and feeling flipping epic, loads of focus and energy 🚀🏃 Haven't felt this good in 20 years. I think coffee was having the worse impact.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

10 months

Wow, just paid $40 on fees 🚀🤩 #bitcoin IS digital gold (with commodity use cases we may not agree with), secured deep in a Swiss bunker with guards. Onchain being expensive to move should be expected. Just because we had a time with low demand, shouldn't skewer expectations.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

5 years

"Grandad, did you actually send transactions on the #bitcoin base layer?!" "Yes, we had no idea how valuable transactions were"

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

10 months

. @lilygo just made us an excellent free and open-source nfc airgapped #bitcoin hww and n o s t r signing device! 😍🎉

@lilygo9

LILYGO

10 months

T-Embed expansion CC1101+PN532 read and write module

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

#nostr just got funding from @jack 🤯

@citlayik

pseudozach

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@jack @Koty_Auditore @Reuters based.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

4 months

Successful #bitcoinSwitch workshop at @BTCPrague hackday, censorship resistant bubbles!

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

I don't like Zaps on #nostr . It's a rushed solution. The whole benefit of lnurl style solution on #nostr is you don't need to run dns to be self-sovereign, all you would need is an npub for the requesting ping pong. This is better:

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LNURL Over Nostr by Kukks · Pull Request #203 · lnurl/luds

This is a very early draft of something I've been thinking of for a long time that allows LN wallets that are not on servers to offer LNURL endpoints.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

#LNPoS in the wild 👀

@Bblocker21

₿ Blocker

2 years

#UsingBitcoin mit #Bitcoin bezahlen kannst du hier: Burger Station Dollendorfer Straße 4 53639 Königswinter Deutschland

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

I love stubborn bitcoiners opposing Drivechains. Any change to #bitcoin should be near impossible to make. On that, we should be vigilant keeping miners in check, this sneaky MASF talk is concerning. Decentralise the miners! (ironically will also fix DC most valid critism)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

Nothing better than randomly bumping into @lnbits being used in the wild! 🤩 Spotted at the #nostr @btcprague social event. 2nd clip is someone paying using #cashu wallet. 🚀🤯❤️

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

#DarkVend Usually vending machines need to be revisited to take the cash/be connected to the internet to take digital payments. This vending machine only needs to cover its own cost and the cost of the products inside of it, other than that it can be installed in an anon way.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Introducing #LNURLVend !🤩 Completely OFFLINE #bitcoin LN Vending Machine. Video tut coming soon! Will be accompanying me to @advbitcoin and @TheBitcoinConf 💪 Check out the repo, and build your own! (same method could be applied to most vending machines)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

#LNURLPoS and @Mastercard battling it out on

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Wow!

@ajinomotto

Ajinomoto ~ A. J. Moto

3 years

I love @arcbtc ‘s #LNURLPoS . I refactored UI part of his code to use with @M5Stack CORE2. Thanks “volos project” youtube channel. I used his core2 calculator code to get LNURLPos keyboard touch screen. I am happy with the output.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Come learn how to build a completely offline #bitcoin sale in the @AdoptingBTC hackspace! 🚀

@KryptoKessler

Bufficorn 1342

3 years

Getting ready for the LN URL Point of Sale Workshop with @arcbtc Swing by at the Hackspace! Cc @AdoptingBTC #Bitcoin #Sats

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

5 years

Introducing Physically Faucet, a physical #bitcoin #LightningNetwork faucet using @ln_zap and #lnurl I'll take a bunch to @LNconf for anyone who hasn't got sats to play with!

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

11 months

Psyched for #nostrasia Tokyo! Getting electronics ready for workshops 🚀 Building zap-lamps, NSD (Nos_tr-signing-device), and LNPoS (offline points of sale). Free to attend workshops 😘⚡

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

Published #BUber , an instant permissionless Taxi service on #Nostr ! 🚖🚀 The client I make will be an @lnbits extension, to include #bitcoin payments, but as long as datatypes are shared all #BUber clients will be interoperable! ( #Nostr is glorious 🤩)

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

7 months

@saylor Cool. Now contribute back to the thing that made you wealthy, grants to some free and open-source projects/developers, or invest in bunch of bitcoin companies 👍

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

Fed up only being able to connect #LightningNetwork wallets to your node over http/tor, and want to be able to also use nostr?🤔 Support Nip-83! (Will also make building non-custodial wallet functions in nostr clients much easier 👍)

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NIP-83 Wallet connect/bridge by arcbtc · Pull Request #433 · nostr-protocol/nips

All bitcoin lightning wallet clients connected to nodes use http/tor, they should also be able to use nostr. Useful for clients wanting to intergrate non-custodal wallet features. Intended for use...

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

3 years

#LNURLPoS next to its legacy cousin. The one on the left is closed, uses a bank and has to be online / the one on the right is open-source, uses #bitcoin and doesn't need to be online. We're winning

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

#bitcoin incentivizes renewables, blah, blah, blah... I need ACTUAL examples 🤞. Please pr

GitHub - arcbtc/awesome-eco-bitcoin: Actual examples of bitcoin having a direct positive environm...

Actual examples of bitcoin having a direct positive environmental impact. - arcbtc/awesome-eco-bitcoin

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Building a #bitcoin #LNPoS now requires NO technical skills, thanks to @lnbits new web-installer/config-tool 🚀🔥

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LNPoS 2 OFFLINE bitcoin point-of-sale (easy install and build)

Flash and configure LNPoS directly from the browser, no technical knowledge needed!https://github.com/lnbits/lnpos

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

4 years

Meet #Gerty , <$10 @lightning #LND node monitor⚡️ #Gerty will monitor your LND node is online, down or has received a transaction 😍 Includes access point for easy setup 🚀 @M5Stack #LightningNetwork #bitcoin

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

2 years

Watch the almost finished #nostrmarket extension🤯. Its the most profound application for #nostr . Completely client-side/encrypted buying/selling 🚀

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Announcing 3 new Nostr extensions in LNBits!

#TeamLNBits has got 3 new extensions to reveal today all with the flavour of #Nostr!

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

11 months

Every time we teach someone how to use cryptographic keys, we are teaching them the tools of liberation. 🗝️🔥 Nos_tr and #bitcoin are the perfect excuse.

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

6 years

Haha! I thought they'd be popular. I'll knock together a site to sell them on in the next few days, so I should be able to post some out next week. I was thinking 20,000sats, about $1? I'll link the site here 🙂

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Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️

1 year

BRICS will use #bitcoin , and build a stable Commodity pegged local currency built on #bitcoin , as will other countries looking to wiggle out of petrodollar hegemony, it's inevitable.

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Brazil's president wants to end dollar dominance and backs calls for BRICS nations to use their own...

"Who was it that decided that the dollar was the currency after the disappearance of the gold standard?" President Lula said on Thursday.

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