supposedly the Western Union CEO got so triggered last cycle he sent his lawyers to try and find an angle to come after Strike and me personally. a former WU lawyer told me some crazy stories someone tell this tough guy to come join us on nostr. we can talk about Lightning and hash it out like grown men in public with no lawyers 🤣🤣🤣 we are winning 🫡

testing out Strike Europe we just realized our USD/EUR cross-currency payments are way better than Wise and everyone else. was a total accident. we haven't even spent time optimizing or taking a closer look. we're initially focused on core functionality like buy/sell/dca/free on-chain payments/core lightning wallet/etc this is just the outcome of Strike having: USD/BTC <--> BTC/EUR we also support SEPA instant in Europe and we'll be turning on RTP payments in the US this month. so soon not only can we do cheap & instant USD <> EUR but then customers can also have the payments instantly cashed out to their bank Lightning as an open value transfer protocol is insane. it still blows my mind every time. crazy to see it all come together too. exciting

developers aren’t a threat to #Bitcoin. In fact, nobody is. the only people that can change #Bitcoin are us, the collective free market that runs the software itself. i ranted about how we should all support open source bitcoin development no matter who we are or what we believe in todays Mailbag Monday open source development is necessary for #Bitcoin to last for centuries to come as an open source project

do we need more education around bitcoin forks, consensus, the role of nodes, etc.? Bitcoin education has gotten so much better but maybe we’re a bit underinvested in education around how the network itself works? very important. we the market determine its future i’ve collected a bunch of tweets over the last week regarding open source devs killing bitcoin. going to spend this Mailbag Monday episode dispelling what seems to be a lot of misunderstanding. curious if yall have any thoughts or requests before i record

my opinions don’t change if i learn what happened in some random convo. Bitcoin doesn’t care. we need a healthy open source Bitcoin community. period. no matter what. Bitcoin won’t succeed without one. even if we want to ossify, Bitcoin Core 26.0 won’t last us centuries to come. open source projects need open source devs and an open source community. we should focus on no strings attached funding for devs. the community has worked tirelessly to set this up with things like OpenSats, Brink, HRF, Chaincode, etc. to enable that effortlessly for us and the devs. we as Bitcoiners should want devs to build whatever they think is best. engineers are the artists of the digital world. the smartest most forward thinkers in the room. we want to enable them. they aren’t ever a threat, don’t mistaken them for one. why? because the only way Bitcoin can change is if we, the network, run their code. let them create. we the network, the people, decide what gets adopted. if someone builds something terrible, we won’t run it. that’s happened many times before. see Segwit2x, BitcoinCash, etc. often times engineers strike moments of brilliance in Bitcoin. a very famous example is Segwit and how we got Lightning. nobody thought Segwit was possible technically. was never clear if or when we’d ever get Lightning. a few open source engineers named Luke and Eric found a brilliant solution. we adopted it. we now have Lightning being enabled by Coinbase. let engineers create art. fund and support them. wanna ossify Bitcoin? run Core 26 forever and never update. no problem. don’t wanna fund devs? no problem. we don’t need to agree on these things. however, if you want the entire network to agree with you, you need to go out and advocate for consensus around your vision. that’s just how bitcoin works. the network moves as one, not from a meeting or self elected group. bitcoin is a distributed network. it progresses through distributed consensus. the network will act in its own best interest, not based on anything else. fund the best engineers to protect and advance the one chance we have at reinventing money for humanity. adopt what we want, reject what we don’t. if there’s anything we need to work on every cycle with new entrants is public discourse and how to arrive at consensus as a distributed network. also, everyone should breathe. it’s all love and gonna be ok. Bitcoin was designed to not care and last through anything 🙂 View quoted note →

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hey nostr, we're gearing up to launch Strike Europe, looking to do a little more testing. anyone willing to help us test in the following countries? - Belgium - Bulgaria - Cyprus - Denmark - Finland - Hungary - Iceland - Liechtenstein - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia if you're in other countries and want to help with final testing, you can also ping me, but these markets have gotten the least testing so far. just wanna get some more eyes and hands on them gonna keep this nostr only too, so just DM me here. appreciate yall

one country faces lifestyle changes due to inflation, insolvency concerns, a banking crisis, and perpetual war. another country is ascending by pursuing the hardest money, low crime, beautiful aesthetics, and entrepreneurial talent. which is the US, and which is El Salvador? 🤷‍♂️

Strike now has no limits, free withdrawals, all major payment methods and cheap fees i’ll give you 0.69% fees until the halving if you’re somewhere else and wanna give it a try