Michael Levin⚡️
@MichaelLevin
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product @lightning | previously @google | @Wharton @PennEngEntrep | fix the money. fix the world.
New Orleans, LA
Joined May 2009
1/7: Some personal news: I'm excited to share that I've accepted and started my dream job as Product Growth Lead @lightning where I'll be working tirelessly with the rest of the incredible team to help empower developers and entrepreneurs to bring #Bitcoin to billions ⚡️ 👇🧵👇
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What happens when stablecoins meet the Lightning Network? In this episode of The Web3 Prof Podcast, @LeoAW of @lightning Labs explains how stablecoins could transform Bitcoin payments; making them faster, cheaper, and ready for global use. Listen now:
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The stablecoin floodgates have opened following the GENIUS act. We need to use @lightning to make them interoperable and scalable on #bitcoin. https://t.co/o5onFg1smv
amboss.tech
The stablecoin market has exploded across dozens of blockchains — Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Polygon, Avalanche, and more. Each chain brings its own wallets, addresses, and liquidity pools. What was...
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🚨Lightning Node Operators🚨 If you have excess inbound, you should peer with Loop. There's a massive opportunity to earn meaningful non-custodial yield simply by peering with Loop, setting sane fees, and Looping In to keep the channel alive. Read the guide below for more
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1/11: With the latest release of Lightning Terminal, users can interact with Autopilot functionality through a new tab specifically designed for easy, simple setup of AutoFees and AutoOpen. Check it out and connect your node today!
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17 years after the white paper, the Bitcoin network is still operational and more resilient than ever. Bitcoin never shuts down. @SenateDems could learn something from that.
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Politics aside, the tweet below should be jumping off the screens of traders. Is the very busy Treasury Secretary just randomly thinking about BTC? See #2 here (posted a month ago): https://t.co/sXwwzrbrQA This is the first time I’ve seen a senior administration official
17 years after the white paper, the Bitcoin network is still operational and more resilient than ever. Bitcoin never shuts down. @SenateDems could learn something from that.
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Good time to read or re-read this piece by @RyanTheGentry on Lightning's Last Mile solutions in @BitcoinMagazine. It's a bit over a year later and it's remarkably prescient in my opinion. https://t.co/0b0tl2IuQf
bitcoinmagazine.com
A look at different solutions to solving the issue of end users interactions with the Lightning network, i.e. the last mile problem.
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Steak n Shake is announcing the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. All payments received in Bitcoin will be placed in our SBR. 🚀 We are donating 210 sats from every Bitcoin meal we sell to Open Sats Initiative, Inc. over the next 12 months. 🧡 Make your Bitcoin
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Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day! Incredibly grateful to Satoshi for improving so many lives including my own. https://t.co/xqtlFNWtsK
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The automated node stack is here. 📡 AutoOpen 📈 Autofees 🔁 Autoloop Use automated node operations so you can focus on building. Check it out today: https://t.co/hF3B3wVFl3
terminal.lightning.engineering
For Lightning node operators to gauge their node's performance and get actionable recommendations on ways to improve.
1/11: With the latest release of Lightning Terminal, users can interact with Autopilot functionality through a new tab specifically designed for easy, simple setup of AutoFees and AutoOpen. Check it out and connect your node today!
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11/11: Give Autopilot on Lightning Terminal a try today by connecting your node!
terminal.lightning.engineering
For Lightning node operators to gauge their node's performance and get actionable recommendations on ways to improve.
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10/11: Autopilot on Lightning Terminal saves node operators time and increases revenues. And, importantly, Autopilot obfuscates data like channel ids, node pubkeys, forwarding amounts, and time stamps. This architecture is designed to ensure user privacy.
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9/11: With AutoOpen, you get set-and-forget channel opens. You just set a sat budget, define min/max channel size, pick your preferred peers, and choose your speed.
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8/11: AutoOpen saves node operators time by choosing which channels to open based on nodes' reachability. It lowers costs by watching mempool fee trends and batching channel opens. Finally, AutoOpen increases growth by providing more routes through your node.
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7/11: AutoOpen automatically opens channels with the goal of improving betweenness-centrality and lowering costs.
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6/11: Autofees helps node operators earn more revenue without having to invest time in manual analysis of flows and manual fee setting. That said, you can always turn it on or off for specific channels.
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5/11: Then, Autofees will evaluate the forwarded traffic from the past 3 days for each channel and decide what adjustments to make to channel fees. Each fee adjustment is made once every 3 days.
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4/11: To make fee decisions, Terminal uses the forwarded traffic of the top five earning channels over 60 days as a reference point for the entire node.
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3/11: First, Autofees monitors your node’s routing activity and adjusts channel fees intelligently to increase revenue based on liquidity flows through your node.
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