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Nostr Is The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Circular Economy: Join Us

[Jan 14 2:53 PM] Follow Frank on X. While many of you may have heard of bitcoin circular economies like El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach or South Africa’s Bitcoin Ekasi but haven’t been able to go and spend your sats in such a place, please know that in just a few…

Neobank Yopaki Aims To Make Every Mexican A Bitcoiner

[Dec 31, 2025 7:25 PM] Company Name: YopakiFounders: Francisco Chavarria (CEO) and Carlos Chida (CTO)Date Founded: March 2023Location of Headquarters: Austin, TXNumber of Employees: Four full time; one part timeWebsite: https://www.yopaki.com/Public or Private? PrivateIn…

Earn Bitcoin For Providing Liquidity Via Boltz Pro

[Dec 30, 2025 5:00 PM] Today, Boltz is launching Boltz Pro, a service that lets users help Boltz manage its bitcoin wallet and Lightning channel liquidity, and I plan to test it out.But first some background on how Boltz Pro works.According to Kilian, a co-founder of…

Tando Was All The Rage At This Year’s Africa Bitcoin Conference

[Dec 13, 2024 6:05 PM] Follow Frank on X. Before I even arrived at this year’s Africa Bitcoin Conference, I saw attendees posting about Tando, a new Kenya-based payments app that allows users to spend their sats with merchants who don’t accept bitcoin.Just arrived…

More Nodeless Non-custodial Bitcoin Lightning Wallets, Por Favor

[Nov 14, 2024 2:21 PM] Follow Frank on X. On Tuesday, Breez announced its latest partner, Yopaki, a Mexican neobank. Yopaki has integrated with Breez’s free and open-source SDK, which enables its users to have a non-custodial Lightning wallet without having to run…

David Marcus: From PayPal President To Bitcoin Believer

[Oct 30, 2024 3:31 PM] David Marcus is taking his experience as the former head of PayPal and Meta Messenger and applying it to building on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.At Lightspark’s first partner summit, Lightspark Sync, he and his team rolled out new capabilities for…

Lightspark Announces New Bitcoin L2 and Upgraded UMA Capabilities

[Oct 25, 2024 3:18 PM] At Lightspark Sync, Lightspark’s first partner summit on Thursday, the company announced new products and features that will allow users to make global payments with both bitcoin and fiat.The company announced that it has launched an alpha version…

SHINOBI: OFF-CHAIN PROTOCOLS WILL ALWAYS BE A BALANCING ACT

[Oct 2, 2024 6:04 PM] Rene Pickhardt recently kicked off a thread discussing the differences between two party and multiparty (more than two participants) payment channels as it relates to his research work around payment reliability on the Lightning Network. He voices…

Louisiana State Government Now Accepts Bitcoin Lightning As Payment

[Sep 18, 2024 10:30 PM] Louisiana State Treasurer, John Fleming, M.D. has announced that the state government will now accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Lightning Network, and USD Coin, as a valid form of payment for state services. The first cryptocurrency payment was made to the…

Choose Privacy

[Sep 4, 2024 8:11 PM] This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine's "The Privacy Issue". Subscribe to receive your copy.Privacy is a fundamental issue in using a public blockchain system like Bitcoin. Numerous projects and proposals have been made over the years to…

Bitcoin Lightning Startup TMRW Raises $1.3 Million Funding

[Aug 21, 2024 12:31 PM] Miami-based Bitcoin startup TMRW has raised $1.3 million in pre-seed Funding to develop its social payments app powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Maple VC led the funding round, and Bitcoin angel investors like Brad Mills joined the…

River: A Bitcoin Brokerage Built From The Ground Up

[Aug 20, 2024 8:32 PM] Company Name: RiverFounders: Alexander LeishmanDate Founded: February 2019Location of Headquarters: Columbus, OHAmount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: Proof of reserves launching soonNumber of Employees: 50Website: https://river.com/Public or Private?…

Fedi Combines Bitcoin And Other Freedom Tech With Community

[Aug 13, 2024 4:57 PM] Company Name: FediFounders: Obi Nwosu, Justin Moon and Eric SirionDate Founded: June 2022Location of Headquarters: Fully remoteAmount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/ANumber of Employees: 27 full-time employeesWebsite: https://www.fedi.xyz/Public or…

Assessing the Lightning Network's Last-Mile Solutions

[Aug 13, 2024 3:37 PM] Custodial Lightning has clearly achieved product market fit. Users benefit from instant Bitcoin payments and minimal fees, while custodians manage the complexities of channel and liquidity management. Major platforms like Coinbase, Cash App…

Alby: A Hub For The Bitcoin And Lightning Economy

[Jul 24, 2024 11:03 AM] Company Name: AlbyFounders: Michael Bumann, Moritz Kaminski and René AaronDate Founded: Open-source project founded in December 2020 / Company founded in March 2022Location of Headquarters: Fully remoteAmount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/ANumber…

Bitcoin Blockspace: Dynamics of System Resource Use

[Jun 21, 2024 10:04 AM] Competition for blockspace is and always will be one of the core tensions that exist between different users of the Bitcoin protocol. At the end of the day there are only two restrictions on how it will be used, the technical and consensus layer of…

Taking Bitcoin Mainstream, One Stream At A Time On Wavlake

[Jun 5, 2024 8:40 AM] Founders: Sam Means and Michael RheeDate Founded: 2022Location of Headquarters: Chicago,IL; New York, NY and Phoenix, AZAmount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/ANumber of Employees: 3Website: https://wavlake.com/Public or Private? PrivateSam Means is…

Ecash Makes Bitcoin — And CBDCs — Private With Calle’s Cashu

[May 21, 2024 7:32 AM] Editor’s note: Cashu is a protocol, not a company.Founders: CalleDate Founded: October 2022Location of Headquarters: RemoteAmount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/ANumber of Employees: 20-30 open-source developersWebsite: https://cashu.space/Public…

Ecash Makes Bitcoin (And Fiat) Private With Calle’s Cashu

[May 21, 2024 7:32 AM] Editor’s note: Cashu is a protocol, not a company.Founders: CalleDate Founded: October 2022Location of Headquarters: RemoteAmount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/ANumber of Employees: 20-30 open-source developersWebsite: https://cashu.space/Public…

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network In Every App: Breez CEO’s Vision

[May 14, 2024 9:57 AM] Founders: Roy Sheinfeld, Roei Erez and Yaacov SlamaDate Founded: 2018Location of Headquarters: RemoteAmount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: Dozens held in Breez Lightning nodesNumber of Employees: 11Website: https://breez.technology/Public or Private?…

Going Bankless: Bitcoin Offers The Ultimate Financial Freedom

[May 7, 2024 9:58 AM] It is often said that Bitcoin allows anyone to be their own bank. If you know anything about Bitcoin’s ethos and underlying tech, you’ve likely heard of this concept before. But do you know exactly how that works and why Bitcoin is more suitable as…