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Late posting this, but I really enjoyed chatting Bitcoin payments with Flash Founder Pierre Corbin! ⚡️ Love what they’re building 👇 Ultimate Solution for Accepting Bitcoin Payments? https://youtu.be/Y-YuwcUdkDA

Latest tutorial: DCA (recurring buy) Bitcoin straight to your own self-custody using nostr:nprofile1qqsza56ed667de7q6mu6uxspetg7gzadqtkeug3plserzcj2nz6vc7qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3xamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vghsglsmsc! Recurring Bitcoin Buy Straight To Self-Custody? https://youtu.be/1I5QZjxOW_I

Zeus Embedded Node Tutorial 🫡 Self-Custodial Lightning Made Easy (Full Zeus Wallet Tutorial) https://youtu.be/bDzbKH5dwys

Latest video was a bit of a banger if I do say so myself 🫡 Is The Lightning Network Doomed? https://youtu.be/S783cGjDicA

⛏️Is it time to be concerned about Bitcoin mining pool centralization? I sat down recently with nostr:nprofile1qqsxc2v48w0u8cxejmxsrjtw9x3htng6lcwzyyw035lh5c627f6guxqnlmhrl from nostr:nprofile1qqspyv0e2w2tdc4llqn774sw9c5vx9tsuyvsxr2f6ard0qf0nq20fvsk5k9nu to discuss 👇 The Cure For Bitcoin Mining Centralization? https://youtu.be/YML99oILgP8

Why USDT Coming To Lightning Is A Big Deal 👇 https://youtu.be/6CPb3hQEolk

Big news today!! Tether announces USDT will be returning to Bitcoin as a Taproot Asset. Next step: make it usable and accessible for all 🫡 Joltz links here: https://linktr.ee/joltz.btc https://x.com/joltz_btc/status/1885097351108243487?s=46&t=FY_o4CV6fruf1w2-eEIzLQ

The good news is that better self-custodial UX is coming. At Joltz we’re making novel use of Musig2 to create a Muun-like experience for users that can also scale well during periods of high fees 🫡 nostr:note1lf25e7cnzg32jrt8628f35ly8t8smjmnzj3j3hfkswqfp2w83wfqrtmw9z

“TRUST IN 3RD PARTIES BAD!” “WOOO CASHU IS THE GREATEST” What am I missing here? I get that Cashu is great for privacy and has nice UX (and I get the nuance around bearer tokens), but why are we championing it so hard without (at least from what I’ve seen) talking about the obvious trade-off? Genuine question. More payments solutions on Bitcoin is ultimately a good thing to give users more choice but just seems to be some cognitive dissonance on this one.

Pumped to be speaking this week at Plan B in El Salvador! Anyone else going to be there?

GM, here is what's going to happen: (1) Global merchant acceptance of stablecoins. --> 2-3% immediately back to their bottom-line while preserving their need to denominate value in their preferred unit of account (for the time being). (2) Smart merchants invest that 2-3% cost saving to establish a BTC treasury. (3) Other chains fail to adequately scale payments to a global level. Extinction-level cope event as everyone realizes with horror that payment channels were right all along. (4) All stablecoin payment activity migrates to the Lightning Network via Taproot Assets. No bridges, no sidechains, no fake "L2s", just native Bitcoin. (5) A covenants upgrade goes live on Bitcoin mainnet. Channel factories and various other approaches like what we're building at Joltz scale self-custodial usage of the Lightning Network. Cope levels are now unbearable. Broader crypto community rage-quits hit all-time high. (6) By now, those smart merchants are reaping the benefits of their decision and as a result are systematically destroying their less smart competitors in the marketplace. (7) Survival of the fittest prevails; merchants become increasingly averse to accepting fiat units of account for payment, and this progresses until BTC is the only accepted payment method. (8) Hyperbitcoinization. Humanity experiences unprecedented flourishing. The end.

As a Bitcoin startup founder, some days are euphoric and you think it’s all going to come together. Other days it feels like it’s all going to fall apart. Either way, keep building…

Painfully true. We wade through the muck of regulatory uncertainty at Joltz every day. There is so much gray area with Lightning in particular and that only increases with Taproot Assets. The show must go on, but I do hope we see more clarity soon. nostr:note1c4pkz22jha4m6l0pzgkrnpm0fv7w82rrkf25zgdrft9raqnlhs4qcfrtvl

Self-custodial, multi-asset payments on the Lightning Network are the bridge to full hyperbitcoinization. My latest opinion piece in nostr:npub1ya6ds0y0j7yutq6pg2ftzxfvgdzaklls64g75vh0522c7svj7mjs9cug3q 👇 https://bitcoinnews.com/opinion/future-of-payments-joltz-taproot-assets/

Nostr is where I come to wash off any toxic filth or pretentious bullshit accumulated during the day from other social media - this is a special network 🥹

This might be a controversial one, but sharing what I think is an essential ingredient as we think about the path towards hyperbitcoinization: https://medium.com/joltzwallet/taproot-assets-the-bitcoin-network-reaches-its-full-potential-861804f3ea41

Okay I must say the new nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n Jade Plus is slick! Big improvements from the first model. Full tutorial vid below 👇 If you want to snag one, feel free to get yourself 10% off with code “Ian” at checkout 🫡 Blockstream Jade Plus: Full Setup & Honest Review https://youtu.be/gLHsMC7aJj4

One of my favorite books. Ridley argues that our ability to trade is THE essential driver of prosperity. More trades = more prosperity And we know that better money = more trades. Bitcoin as a store of value solving time theft (inflation) is massive for humanity…but I think its ability to increase the number of trades via its permissionless, borderless, censorship resistant, internet-native settlement network is an EVEN bigger deal. At Joltz we’re building the wallet infrastructure to once and for all enable everyone on earth to hold, receive, and send value instantly and without a custodian. Big news coming end of this month 👀

🥳 25 Bitcoin Predictions for 2025! 25 Bitcoin Predictions For 2025! https://youtu.be/dQVfuL7M9nY

🔑 Happy Proof of Keys Day! 🥳 Declare and reaffirm your self-sovereignty by withdrawing any Bitcoin from custodians to your own self-custody. One of the few, if only, ways to keep custodians honest. If it’s your first time, it can feel daunting. Check out the many video tutorials on my YouTube channel to walk you through it 🫡