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CASA21 🇧🇷
Casa21 isn't fully operational just yet, but our
@saopaulobitdevs
community got an exclusive sneak peek!
While we've enjoyed meeting at coworking spaces at FIAP or USP, there's something uniquely exciting about coming together in our very own dedicated space.
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What a shit show
this image is crazy. first representation of a cross-chain world i've seen
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🔥The Rise of Paid Nostr Relays🔥
@zebedeeio
is the easiest way to monetize your Nostr relay today!
Use
#Bitcoin
Lightning Network with the ZBD API and start earning revenue for providing distributed infra to the open Nostr network!
Game changer! 🤯🤯
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You guys remember when
#Bitcoin
wasn't going to be used for payments at a global scale?
Yeah me neither ⚡️
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"[Lightning Network] has no upper limit on transactions/second and it radically alters Bitcoin's energy profile. It is the least discussed component about
#Bitcoin
. It's absolutely criminal that this is ignored by people [...] It will be the biggest story in money for years." ⚡️
"It will be the biggest story in money for years!"
@bitspooky
, our Head of Business Development, is known for his bold statements, but he always speaks the truth. Watch a snippet from WN Conference Berlin, where he talked about the power of developing games with Bitcoin.
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⚡️Lightning Address + 🤙Nostr
Two extremely powerful technologies that I am very proud to say
@zebedeeio
and
@nbd_wtf
had a lot of involvement in from day 0.
Here's to open money ✅
Here's to open identity ☑️
Here's to open networks 🤯
👏👏👏👏👏
#Bitcoin
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⚡️ZBD FEATURES THREAD⚡️
Every week I'll be discussing a
@zebedeeio
product feature in more detail. Our product line is extensive so this should be a lot of fun!
Today I'll be talking about the magical ZBD Vouchers!
Let's get it! 🖖
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I just released ⚡️
A Lightning Address server supporting multiple LN node backend interfaces. It allows you (and friends/anyone-you-want) to connect your nodes to a Lightning Address instantly
Easiest way to start playing with a
#Bitcoin
Lightning Address
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⚡️ZBD FEATURES THREAD⚡️
This week in
@zebedeeio
product features, I’ll be walking you through the ZEBEDEE APP CAMERA functionality📱📸
You’ll need the ZEBEDEE App installed — get started at
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⚡️ZBD FEATURES THREAD ⚡️
Every week I'll be discussing a
@zebedeeio
product feature in more detail. Our product line is extensive so this should be a lot of fun!
Today I'll be talking about the ZBD user profile page!
Let's get it! 🖖
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⚡️ZBD FEATURES THREAD⚡️
Every week I'll be discussing a
@zebedeeio
product feature in more detail. Our product line is extensive so this should be a lot of fun!
Today I'll be talking about the recently released ZBD Bots for
@discord
!
Let's get it! 🖖
🔝 ZBD Bots level up! 🔝
Introducing a sleek new update for ZBD Bots that makes sending
#Bitcoin
in Discord easier than ever! 🦾 Revised commands, improved interface, new functionalities and much more! Details in our blog 👇
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Today we’re announcing
@zebedeeio
’s open source arm - NBD (
@nbd_wtf
)
NBD is cypherpunk. NBD writes code. NBD builds open source software for the modern sovereign individual powered by
#Bitcoin
No Big Deal ⚡️
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Just use Bitcoin over LN on Nostr. You simply don’t need ecash or mints
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There is no way to separate "Bitcoin the asset" and "Bitcoin the network". This is a false narrative, to use the bitcoin network you need the btc asset. Gtfo
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Today we’re releasing the first in a multi-part series on how
#Bitcoin
, Lightning Network, and Lightning Address are helping bring user interoperability across LSPs and web service providers.
⚡ S/O to
@5antoshernandez
for working with me on this piece!
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Over the past couple months I've been helping providers who've reached out about paths to implementation for Lightning Address. I've shared this doc privately, but it can be useful to anyone building in
#Bitcoin
LN.
Lightning Address for Service Providers
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What if we had coins inside
@CSGO
that actually represented sats?
Say no more! Survival mode is going to be so slick soon!
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Now that
#Bitcoin
LN integration is live, when will
@CashApp
adopt Lightning Address and have "andre
@cash
.app" instead of "$Andre" as users Payment Tags?
✅ Interoperability btwn Lightning service providers
✅ Better UX for newcomers to the Bitcoin world
Lightning Network is now available on Cash App. It's the fastest, free way to pay anyone in bitcoin.
Buy tacos, tip your favorite Twitter comedian, or send a friend money abroad—anywhere that accepts lightning.
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Hey so you know all of the awesome stuff that's being released about making
#Bitcoin
Lightning Network payments using NFC cards and NFC tags?
Yeah, that's all LNURL😉
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Thrilled to announce that
@zebedeeio
has raised our Series B round led by Kingsway Capital, and joined by The Raine Group, and Square Enix!
We're bringing
#Bitcoin
to the masses through gaming⚡️
Stay tuned for really exciting news in the coming weeks!
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YOU CAN ALL GET A LIGHTNING ADDRESS NOW ⚡️
If you've been waiting to get your hands dirty with this nifty thing called a Lightning Address,
@BtcpayServer
has made it extremely simple to setup.
This is
#Bitcoin
UX for the masses
BTCPay Server new major release - v1.3.0 is here 🚀
- LNURL
- Lightning Address
- Taproot
- Print Point of Sale view
- Topup invoice
- LN support for pull payments (refunds)
- Crowdfunding app re-designed
- Theme switch
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Opt into Bitcoin. It's the 'fuck you' money this broken system doesn't control.
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Welcome
@CoinCorner
@fastbitcoins
and
@LNMarkets
to the Lightning Address world ⚡️⚡️
Open REST APIs standards for
#Bitcoin
Lightning invoice orchestration FTW!
@Bitnob_official
@Noah_HQ
@usebipa
soon!
Learn more at and grab your first LN Address!
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“Value on the internet is no longer bound by a game, platform, or universe. Now internet money is accepted across any reality. All worlds speak Bitcoin.”
#Bitcoin
in Gaming is just getting started!
h/t
@MoritzKaminski
and
@olegmikh1
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I just published Lightning Network Development for Modern Applications
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Why is everyone else ok with photos from their Bitcoin meetups? Horrible opsec yo
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1/ Two years ago today I jumped onboard a rocketship with
@SECowell
and
@MandelDuck
⚡️🚀
I had met them for less than 10 days total, but the connection was immediate and we all took the plunge to purse our grand vision of
#Bitcoin
in games.
A look back at
@zebedeeio
highlights!
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Bitcoin payments made easy with
@Replit
and
@zebedeeio
⚡️
“We are at a stage in the adoption of this tech where devs can add support for global instant payments with just 3 lines of code.” 🤙
ZEBEDEE lets you move money at the Speed of the Internet! 🫵
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You can build all sorts of apps, games, and tools with the
@zebedeeio
Lightning Payments API
@PlebLab
built a `tap & pay to enter` flow. How SLICK is this? ⚡️
I mean literally anything is possible with instant global payments.
What are YOU building with ZEBEDEE?
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With the significant surge in usage of Bitcoin through Lightning Addresses and Nostr zaps, it’s important that we understand how things started and how far we’ve come
I gave a talk at MIT about the Lightning Address protocol soon after I released it ⚡️⚡️
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I just donated 2,000 sats to SciHub using a Lightning Address, which through
@LNURL_pay_me
's service gets automatically converted into Russian rubles, and arrives at their Yandex account as 70.70 ₽
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
#Bitcoin
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Please continue telling me how LNURL and open HTTP APIs for
#Bitcoin
Lightning aren't an incredibly powerful tool for network participants of all sizes.
LNURL FTW
Great work
@arcbtc
!
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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@Frances_Coppola
@LoanBrew
@extradry_martin
@bantg
New goal for you for 2021: Learn about the technology before attempting to shit on it.
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We just crossed 1,000
#Bitcoin
on the public channels of Lightning Network. These aren't locked on LN, but set free by LN, allowing for extremely cheap, extremely fast movement for these coins.
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Almost every
#Bitcoin
Lightning Network wallet supports sending to a ⚡️Lightning Address at this stage
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Virtually every Bitcoin Lightning wallet supports many of the LNURL sub protocols (withdraw, pay, auth, channel).
Lightning Address is here.
Network effects are in play.
LNURL is here to stay.
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Thrilled to be able to announce Vinteum to the world!⚡️
@Vinteum_org
is a non-profit focused on pushing forward open source dev work of
#Bitcoin
and related technologies 🌎
Extremely proud to be launching this initiative in my home country of Brasil 🇧🇷
Today we are happy to announce we exist!
We are a non-profit dedicated to education and R&D in the
#Bitcoin
and Lightning Network space.
And we're from Brazil! 🇧🇷 Olá!
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#Bitcoin
Infused
@CSGO
is just so much better. I don't think you are ready for what's coming, it's just epic.
@zebedeeio
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Someone please explain to me how a "decentralized exchange" is able to "raise a round of funding"
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We're at the very beginning of the hockey-stick adoption phase of
#Bitcoin
brought on by Lightning. You're going to blink, and everyone's going to be onboarded.
It's not even comparable imo, Bitcoin adoption will happen (much) faster than the adoption of the Internet.
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So which corporations have large ETH holdings in their balance sheet?
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In a world where LNURL doesn't exist, you can't scan a Lightning QR code to receive/withdraw Bitcoin. But no one talks about that piece right?
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I just used the
@zebedeeio
browser extension to send 1,000 sats to
@Stadicus3000
own self-hosted Lightning Network setup. It's that simple!
⚡️Lightning Address FTW
p.s. no payment request or QR codes were used by users in the making of this video 😂
Lightning ⚡ addresses are awesome!
I can now receive money using my regular email address: anyone can just send sats to root
@stadicus
.com*
*) 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑦 yet, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛
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Sending
#Bitcoin
is as easy as sending emails when you use Lightning Addresses ⚡️
Download
@zebedeeio
app at and get started sending
#Bitcoin
at the speed of the internet!
So
@MicroStrategy
converted my corporate email address into a
#Lightning
⚡️ address and people keep sending me 21 sats...🧡
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Guys its decentralized don't worry
Block production on Solana Mainnet Beta has halted. Validator operators should prepare for a restart in mb-validators on Discord.
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Lightning Address is taking over the web, one step at a time
#Bitcoin
The
#LightningNetwork
goes Reddit. ⚡️
Add a Lightning address to your profile and start receiving
#SATs
. Easy!
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Receiving sats through my
@walletofsatoshi
Lightning Address from my
@zebedeeio
app
If you wish to tip me 😂
⚡️ andre
@zbd
.gg
⚡️ spinalhawk13
@walletofsatoshi
.com
#Bitcoin
UX improvements 🤝 Open internet standards
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Thrilled to be unveiling "Log in with ZBD"⚡️
🖖 Money-enabled OAuth2
Just like your other social login options like Google or Twitter, but now supercharged with the ability to send and receive internet money seamlessly!
Powered by
#Bitcoin
and Lightning Network
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Lightning addresses provides the simplest and most intuitive way to make
#Bitcoin
payments over the Lightning Network.
Here I use the
@zebedeeio
browser extension to tip 1000 sats to tip
@nextpay
.apotdevin.com. It settles instantly. No QR/request needed.
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If you’re still sharing your npubs around, you’re doing it wrong.
Nostr me at andre
@zbd
.ai
NIP05 aliases FTW
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What happened here? Did someone turn on native SegWit? 2x native sw outputs in less than a week
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Don't sleep on Lightning Addresses. Lots of fun stuff coming out to the
#Bitcoin
Lightning UX space.
Open REST API standards for orchestrating invoices between wallets and providers.
True Lightning interoperability between wallets and LSPs.
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⚡️We're expanding our Bitcoin/Lightning engineering team at
@zebedeeio
! Are you a LN engineer with experience running high capacity nodes? Do you live for channel balancedness? Want to be at the forefront of scaling Lightning to millions?
DMs are open!
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Looks to me like everyone is adding Lightning Address support in the end...
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"Bitcoin can only do 7 transactions per second though!"
"But these 10min confirmation times are too slow!"
"What about these insane fees?!?!"
The future is here with
#Bitcoin
's
#LightningNetwork
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Today we’re announcing ZEBEDEE's first companion app: . Every user has a dedicated page linked to their ZEBEDEE gamertag providing a programmable, multi-use, interoperable QR code to accept payments of any amount w messaging support.
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⚡️
@zebedeeio
Release Day 🚨
Today we’re announcing the Node.js SDK for the ZEBEDEE API! Bring instant global
#Bitcoin
payments to the fabric of your digital experience 💥
`npm i
@zbd
/node`
Move Money at the Speed of the Internet 🫡
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Hats off to
@gladstein
and the entire
@HRF
team for putting together such an outstanding
@OsloFF
conference this week in Miami.
Satoshi was an activist hoping to make a difference in the world by fixing money through
#Bitcoin
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I just published Lightning This Week | 607,974 ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Stackin' sats has never been easier than playing Sats Stacker game during today's
@MintGox
event using the slick
@zebedeeio
wallet. The future of
#Bitcoin
gaming is now, and it is sweet.
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At
@MicroStrategy
World 2023 the word on the street:
#Bitcoin
&
#Nostr
are the future!
We
@zebedeeio
/
@nbd_wtf
have been yelling about this forever!
Been here since day 0 of Lightning (pre-testnet?)
Been here since day 0 of Nostr (we built it)
Build with experts. Build with ZBD
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This is what makes
@Blockstream
Blockstream.
Today is the 5th day of our
#WeekofLApps
and
@Blockstream
is excited to announce a simple point-of-sale solution called
#nanopos
. Vendors can sell physical items in-person and accept
#Lightning
payments instantly via a simple graphical display. ⚡️📡 $BTC
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@zebedeeio
is now open to all 🫡
Developers — this is your invite to create and innovate with our payments APIs. Add instant global
#Bitcoin
payments to the fabric of any app, game or digital experience.
What are YOU building with ZEBEDEE?
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🎉
@zebedeeio
fam, we're taking it to the next level! ZBD app's got a fresh new feature - now, top-up and cash-out your
#Bitcoin
straight to
@CashApp
🇺🇸US users, it's go time – tap in, cash out, feel the vibe!
#ZBDxCashApp
Check out this video for a sneak peek!
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Looks like
@Bitrefill
is adding support for Lightning Address! Here I am sending
@ziggamon
1,000 sats directly to his Bitrefill account from my ZBD wallet
@zebedeeio
<-->
@bitrefill
⚡️Lightning Address brings interoperability and improved UX between Lightning Network providers
And now
@bitrefill
supports lightning address topups! Just paid
@ziggamon
for lunch the other day using the sergej
@bitrefill
.me lightning address.
Thanks for buidling
@andreneves
!
@MuunWallet
please add asap I had to use my custodial
@bluewalletio
this time but would rather not
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Why do we need stablecoins on Lightning? Aren't we trying to substitute these "fiat coins" in the end? It may fluctuate less than BTC, but their value is far from stable.
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Excited to announce that
@zebedeeio
has partnered with
@Bitstamp
to provide their users with access to the
#Bitcoin
Lightning Network.
We'll onboard millions into the best money that exists, all through the power of gaming. Whatever virtual world you're in, we'll be there too!
ICYMI - We recently announced our integration with
@ZEBEDEEio
’s $Bitcoin
#gaming
wallet last week during the
@Mintgox
#esports
arena at
#Bitcoin2021
, where attendees were able to play
#CSGO
for $btc during matches. Read more via
@crypto_ninjas
⬇️
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Had the pleasure of chatting with
@PrestonPysh
about
#Bitcoin
, Lightning Network and Nostr 🤙
We dive deep into
@zebedeeio
Payment APIs, the new
@zbdapp
release with Nostr capabilities, building-in-public, and much more 👏
Listen and lmk feedback!
What are you building?
#zbd
What if the "Mario coins" in games were Bitcoin sats instead of worthless tokens? What incentives could this create for game developers who can now push ad revenue to the player and not just themselves?
Well, it's already real and
@andreneves
's team is providing a turn-key…
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I just published Lightning This Week | 606,937
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So many platforms, providers, and OSS software announcing Lightning Address integrations lately.
⚡️⚡️⚡️
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I just published Lightning This Week 613,756 | This week we cover LND v0.9-rc3 release, BitMEX research on Lightning Network private capacity, Schnorr/Tap(root/script) BIPs get numbered, new Polar release, and an upcoming ZEBEDEE workshop at
@advbitcoin
.
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Sending to Lightning Address has been implemented in basically every major LN wallet at this point, yet you don't see much media coverage of it. LNURL rarely gets covered, yet not being able to scan a QR code to receive sats seems unthinkable at this stage
Really makes you think
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LN (BTC L2) will surpass all other cryptoassets in 2019. Prove me wrong.
@VitalikButerin
@TuurDemeester
FWIW We’re seeing almost the same number of purchases on
@Bitrefill
with LN (BTC L2) as with ETH.
This despite native Web3 support and prominent promotion in Coinbase and Opera wallets.
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