Robinhood:
- Bitcoin is no.1 recurring purchased asset
- 2M users are on waiting list to withdraw
#Bitcoin
to their own wallets
- Lightning support is coming to
@RobinhoodApp
Kudos!
Not in Miami this week. But I saw the coolest demo of AI +
#Bitcoin
this week in SF.
@kodylow
and
@roasbeef
built the Lightning integration for agents and AI chat apps. It enables easy micropayments between humans and bots.
I am thrilled to announce that I have joined
@GVteam
full time as of this May.
I worked as an eng/PM at Google on Payments/EM/Crypto before GV. At GV, I will dedicate my time to all things crypto as a start
I am very grateful to for the opportunity
Announcing
#Bitcoin
ย Retirement Series 1: Bitcoin Investing In Retirement Plans. It's great to collaborate with Neverdidanything and
@ZevMintz
on the article. This is a start of series of coverage on Bitcoin investing across different countries.
.
@OpenSats
is now officially in Google's company-wide give system. Google employees' donation to
#Bitcoin
open-source work via
@OpenSats
will be 100% matched by the company.
OPENSATS IS LIVE FOR DONATIONS!
501(c)(3) nonprofit with 100% donation passthrough to contributors to
#Bitcoin
free and open source projects.
Give back to bitcoin AND get a tax write off!
Easily donate fiat or bitcoin to a specific FOSS project you like or to the general fund!
It's always great to host a fellow Xoogler. We had some inspiring conversations on governance, PoS vs PoW, formal verification, scaling and many more. Thanks
@ArthurB
for visiting!
It's such an honor to host Vijay. Vijay is one of the most well-versed
#Bitcoin
evangelists in the space. Deep thanks to
@real_vijay
for visiting us! Just let you know how popular Vijay's talk is. We hit the max live participants limit (~250) on Google Meet.
I joined Google as an engineer almost 20 years ago so I'm looking forward to chatting with current Googlers about why I think
#Bitcoin
is so important to the world.
Used
@Bitnob_official
to send money to a colleague based in Ghana! It's an incredibly done app.
#Bitcoin
works! Lightning works! UX is great. Try it today!
Introducing Stripe Apps. Embed custom UIs directly in the Stripe Dashboard and orchestrate the Stripe API to:
โฉ Simplify workflows
โ๏ธ Add UI components to the Dashboard
๐ Sync data with your systems
โคด๏ธ Extend your product into Stripe
Today, we unveil new startup-focused initiatives for Africa, including a $3 million Black Founders Fund Africa and a
@Googleorg
$3 million MSME fund for women entrepreneurs in Africa
Please read, share and apply.
#BFFAfrica
#FundBlackFounders
My 1:1s with my boss, my boss' boss and my previous bosses have recently all become orange-pilling sessions. I am glad they all read
#Bitcoin
whitepaper first.
I rarely do this but would like to send kudos to
@RiverFinancial
team, especially
@Leishman
@ZevMintz
. I was able to open an IRA trading account and purchased
#Bitcoin
within HOURS. The experience is so easy and customer service is amazing.
I figured I spent $5,000+ a year just for newsletter/magazine subscriptions. There is no way I do not sponsor more
#Bitcoin
core devs. ๐ I'm sponsoring
@jeremyrubin
1/
Introducing Umbrel 0.5 โ A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting.
A whole new look. Realtime app updates. App permissions, dependencies, and authentication. Official Bitcoin & Lightning node apps. Oh, and dark mode.
This is Umbrel 0.5. The biggest update to Umbrel.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I am very thankful to everyone that I've worked with and I am inspired by.
To celebrate the holiday, I created a bounty on
@Replit
to give back.
Today I figured out the best way to buy this pair of shoes.
A ๐งต? No.
Use
@trylolli
link to earn 12% in
#Bitcoin
. Buy an Atoms gift card on
@fold_app
for another 8% sats back. Spin the wheel to earn another X%. Pay the remaining with
@OpenNodeCo
on Shopify.
I'm a genius?
Introducing Model 000
#Bitcoin
๐ Limited Edition
โ
Weโve been accepting Bitcoin for a year and are grateful for the community support. It felt natural to team up with our friend
@APompliano
to do a one-time sneaker collaboration.
Pre-order by Sep 29.
If you are an expert in Unity and are interested in
#Bitcoin
, there is an fantastic job opportunity from
@THNDRGAMES
. Thndr Games is one of the most badass game developers that specialize in lightning network.
Square is considering building a Bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses worldwide. If we do this, weโd follow our hardware wallet model: build in the open in collaboration with the community. First some thoughts and questions.
Massive news! Congrats
@Replit
team! Back in my days working on India payments stack, the rapid adoption of low-cost smartphone and cheap high-speed mobile network in India is nothing short of a miracle. Replit will probably empower next-gen India-based software creators.
1/ Introducing Replit India ๐ฎ๐ณ
India is our 2nd largest developer base and our largest mobile developer base.
What is part of the
#ReplitIndia
Launch? Read on: ๐งต
Accidentally booked a hotel in Shanghai where one of the largest investment banks is hosting their mid-year strategy conference. And JP Morgan conference a week before.
Nearly all the traders in China flocked here. My friend in Sequoia China gave me a pass to sneak in.
It's probably a good time to share some insights about our community banking application, the
@bitcoinbeach
wallet.
this is, to our knowledge, the first community bank build on
@Bitcoin
and
@lightning
.
and this is no surprise that this is build in
#ElSalvador
@nayibbukele
Announcing Ghostwriter Chat.
The first conversational AI built right into your IDE, complete with a proactive Debugger.
Generate, debug, refactor, and understand code faster than ever.
Available today in Beta.
1/โก๏ธIt's time for a
@voltage_cloud
release!
Today, I'm really excited to share with you our new product called Flow 2.0.
This is brand new LSP that's focused on Just In Time liquidity.
This LSP will know when you need liquidity, then automatically make it happen. Lets go!๐
Many friends in Bay Area are still not aware of how serious
#nCoV
is. Just let you know the entire Wuhan city (>10M ppl) is now under quarantine. It seems the first case in Bay Area is now confirmed.
My investment thesis is simple:
1. We need decentralized money most likely via
#Bitcoin
and lightning network
2. We also need decentralized Internet and social construct to build a more fair and resilient society.
3. Point 1 has to happen to secure the point 2.
I thought it might take longer but we have a winner within hours. He is a younger hacker from India.
Bounties on
@Replit
has huge potential.
@Blockstream
@niftynei
you have a new contributor
PR:
I just tried
@MuunWallet
on my Pixel 3. It's very interesting it uses submarine swap to allow Bitcoin on-chain users to fund a lightning invoice. It's very cool to see the innovations from Argentina. It's great example how Lightning Network can take off in broader audience.
I started working with GV part-time ~7 mos ago. GV as a team is incredibly collaborative and compassionate. I was given so much autonomy and trust to choose my own path. I am also impressed that GV is very mission-driven and altruistic while always driving for excellence.
Pretty pumped today! I watched the live session between
@gilbert
,
@djrosent
and
@altcap
and at
@ModernTreasury
Transfer event.
It's my first time meeting them in person after listening to
@AcquiredFM
for almost 5 years.
Congratulations to Modern Treasury team on a great
Thrilled to support
@voltage_cloud
with
@GVteam
, . Voltage fills the gap where millions of users can easily onboard to Lightning Network without worrying about the technical complexity
Really appreciated the support from
@thulme
@mgsiegler
@tcburning
@ejn
1/ Today Iโm very excited to share that we closed our Seed round at
@voltage_cloud
. We raised $6MM (14.2 Billion Sats) from some of the best investors in Bitcoin. The new funding will be used to fuel hiring and take the Voltage platform to the next level๐
Stablecoins are coming to Lightning.
@gladstein
explains how he changed his mind on stablecoins and their importance around the world today.
๐ง:
๐บ:
Umbrel 0.4.4 is now out with
#Bitcoin
Core 22.0, lower disk space usage (free up 50GB!), 3 brand new apps in the Umbrel App Store โ
@NodeRED
, Krystal Bull by
@Suredbits
and
@LNMarkets
, performance improvements, updated apps, and more ๐
Just login to your Umbrel to update ๐
1/
.
@joinClubhouse
was now blocked in most cities in China. However, a taste of free Internet is addictive. The last few weeks are surreal to many fellows in mainland China. I've heard many stories about ppl who tried not to sleep to enjoy this moment as much as possible.
I've sucefully runned LLaMA 7B model on my 4GB RAM Raspberry Pi 4. It's super slow about 10sec/token. But it looks we can run powerful cognitive pipelines on a cheap hardware.
Did you hear the big news?!
@Meta
is announcing that
@Instagram
is introducing digital collectibles, and Flow will be one of the first blockchains supported
Creators and collectors, rejoice!
I am thrilled to back
@OpenNode
team with so many great investors and friends at .
Super impressed by
@OpenNode
's focus and mission to bring
#Bitcoin
to everyone in the world.
Weโre thrilled to announce our $20M Series A funding round with an incredible group of investors.
The round was led by Kingsway and includes
@Twitter
,
@TimDraper
,
@avonventures
- a
@fidelity
investments affiliate & more
@DTAPCAP
+1 on
@RiverFinancial
. Their Bitcoin-only experience is much less confusing than Coinbase or Kraken. I even use River for Bitcoin in my IRA. If you have to choose between Coinbase and Kraken, Kraken is no brainier.
@awertheim
@pierre_rochard
@RiverFinancial
@Leishman
@ZevMintz
Yes. The setup is a bit more complicated. I have a LLC solely used for investing Roth IRA funds. This gives you flexibility to hold Bitcoin directly. There are pros and cons with this approach. Maybe I can write an article about it.
In the coming weeks, Fold users will be able to withdraw their sats rewards to a Lightning wallet.
We're excited to partner with
@OpenNodeCo
to make this available, as we further our commitment to support the growth of the Lightning Network.
Weโre partnering with Uber to bring fully autonomous driving technology to even more people as we continue to scale. Later this year, Phoenicians will be able to use Waymo directly via the Uber app. ๐ค๐๐๏ธ
High-speed train runs at 350 km/hr (~217 miles/hr). It took less than 4 hours for me to get from Beijing to my hometown (~1,210 km or ~752 miles).
The ticket price is below $100.
Bought a one-way ticket for my in-law to fly from San Francisco to Shanghai earlier this week. It cost me $12k. Checked the price today -> $18k.
Covid is not killing ppl. Zero covid policy is.
@pitdesi
Here is my rough roadmap for this week. What's missing?
- State our approach to data privacy publicly (we don't share info without company consent, etc)
- Shift team resources to support spike in onboardings
- Remind GPs on AL and Law Firms of the referral discounts they can
@100trillionUSD
Follow up on the interview questions "Why s2f model is not priced in?". The model itself is still not well known or believed in despite getting viral since early 2019. As evidence, I haven't seen anybody in my Chinese circle talking about the article.
SLP122
@100trillionUSD
- Responses to the S2F Model
PlanB's work is blowing up! We talk:
- Responses to S2F
- Cointegration and what it is
- Cash and carry trade
- Where to from here
Enjoy, and don't forget to share!
Announcing
#Bitcoin
ย Retirement Series 1: Bitcoin Investing In Retirement Plans. It's great to collaborate with Neverdidanything and
@ZevMintz
on the article. This is a start of series of coverage on Bitcoin investing across different countries.
I am excited to travel to El Salvador tomorrow and experience the first
#Bitcoin
nation in human history.
I am pretty embarrassed that I forgot to book a ticket to
@AdoptingBTC
. Does anyone have an extra ticket?
Thought
@CashApp
's announcement is more important than most ppl think. We now have an open-source standard of a unified QR code experience of handling lightning
It cost ~$19M per year in total including ~$14M in infrastructure cost to run Signal. Honestly it's incredibly efficient given the scale.
Donate to Signal.
Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech coโs avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model? 1/