QR codes are Bitcoin's secret weapon 🔑 @Fedi just unlocked BTC payments at 65M+ Indian merchants — using apps they already have. India. South Africa. Colombia. Adoption is moving fast. #BitcoinCommerce No. 145 is live 👇

QR Codes: Bitcoin Adoption Secret Sauce

Existing QR-code based payment apps can pave the way for mass Bitcoin adoption

What money do #AI agents prefer? Not banks. #Bitcoin #fintech

Bitcoin Policy Institute — AI Agents Study

Which Money do AI Agents Prefer?

9,072 controlled experiments across 36 frontier AI models reveal surprising monetary preferences.

What could the upcoming "eCash" hard fork mean for Bitcoin businesses? An opportunity to get customers spending their forked coins? An opportunity to sell the new tokens and buy more BTC? Both? This will heat up this summer. Watch closely 🔥

When governments start calling #blockchain a "payment rail", the conversation is finally changing. Less “magic internet money", more infrastructure. #Fintech #Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine

U.S. Treasury Presses Senate To Pass Crypto Legislation

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a Senate panel Wednesday that passing comprehensive crypto legislation is vital to maintaining U.S. financial...

What can you build with Bitcoin? 💸 Payments 🏦 Fintech 🏆 Rewards 👛 Wallets 🆔 Decentralized ID 🗄️ Proof of Ownership 🤖 AI monetization 10+ years building Bitcoin apps—and we’re just getting started. Full article:

What Can You Build with Bitcoin?

Our biz has been building Bitcoin projects for over 10 years now! We started out specializing in Bitcoin payment integration for e-commerce sites d...

Square looks serious about Bitcoin. They're exploring Bitcoin payments for merchants using their POS terminals. If you're a business that wants this, sign up for the pilot here: 👇

Square Bitcoin Payments Pilot Sign-Up

#Bitcoin #BitcoinCommerce #Square

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Hey hey, check it out! 🎉 We’re excited to welcome npub1a4za3zcax35dckjy4ps32fqqatyuvzfnxfrnrq5rpuersnm072wsua2egl as our new Business Development Lead at Velas Commerce! Krystal brings great energy and shares our mission of helping businesses build with Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Say hi to Krystal and learn more about what we’re building: 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/krystal-johnston/ 📧 krystal@velascommerce.com

Building bitcoin features into Node.js or the browser? Check out bitcoinjs which supports transactions, addresses and more. 🔗Github:

bitcoinjs-lib - v7.0.1

Documentation for bitcoinjs-lib

📚 Docs:

bitcoinjs-lib - v7.0.1

Documentation for bitcoinjs-lib

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Sneak peek into the next edition of the #BitcoinCommerce roundup. Swiss shoppers can buy groceries with #Bitcoin at Zug’s Spar Supermarket ⚡ Don’t miss it, sign up here 👉 https://velascommerce.com/newsletter/ https://cointelegraph.com/news/spar-store-zug-switzerland-bitcoin-payments-lightning-network

We’re updating the Bitcoin for Developers course and (re)discovered this gem: Why run a Bitcoin node? 👇 Being part of the revolution starts here: #Bitcoin #BitcoinDev

Bitcoin startups are going big - over $ 1.1 billion raised in 4 years! And it’s happening against a backdrop of decline in other crypto project investments, according to research by TVP. We cover this and more in our latest #BitcoinCommerce Roundup. Read it here:

Bitcoin Startups Going Big: 🦄 Over $1.1 Billion Raised

Bitcoin-focused startups have raised some serious funding and show more resilience to downturns than their crypto counterparts.

Highly recommend this interview with @bitcoinplebdev on @Pleb Underground 🎙️ Builders are creating apps with NOSTR using fresh ideas from the ground up. PlebDevs is an great example and a resource for Bitcoin & Lightning devs. ⚡️ Watch here: And check out: https://plebdevs.com/

Congratulations to the winners of the 10th wave of OpenSats NOSTR grants! Got a Bitcoin, Lightning or NOSTR project looking for grant funding? OpenSats is one of several organizations that fund open source development in Bitcoin!

OpenSats

Tenth Wave of Nostr Grants

OpenSats is funding seven more open-source projects advancing the nostr ecosystem.

We put together a list here: https://velascommerce.com/list-of-bitcoin-open-source-developer-grants/ Contributions welcome:

GitHub

GitHub - Velas-Commerce/bitcoin-dev-grants: Community-maintained list of Bitcoin and Lightning open-source developer grants.

Community-maintained list of Bitcoin and Lightning open-source developer grants. - Velas-Commerce/bitcoin-dev-grants

Hey NOSTR—We're developing an open-source Lightning course and looking for a fully online (browser-based) instance of Lightning Polar. Think 'Polar meets Replit'—usable from anywhere, even public computers. Any leads or ideas appreciated⚡️

What will boost Bitcoin Lightning Network adoption? @Bitcoin Breakdown ⚡ just ran an interesting poll: Sounds like onboarding more merchants and improving wallet UX are key priorities. Check it out ⚡

We’re in the middle of some e-commerce Lightning node updates and it’s amazing to see the progress that’s been made in such a short time! Tools like @BTCPay Server and #NWC are making Bitcoin friendly for e-commerce sites like never before⚡

⚖️ End of an Era: El Salvador Waves Goodbye to the Bitcoin Law This edition of #BitcoinCommerce Roundup covers major shifts and innovations: 🔹 El Salvador repeals the Bitcoin Law 🔹 Tether brings USDT to Bitcoin 🔹 Breez reports on the future of payments 🔹 Bitcoin Ordinals hit lows not seen since Feb 2024 🔹 Galoy’s new product aims to make Bitcoin banking easy 🔹 Plus, our meme of the week! 😁 👉 Read it here: https://velascommerce.com/bitcoin-commerce-roundup-latest-edition/

Shout out and thank you to the Puerto Rico Blockchain Trade Association for inviting us to speak to Puerto Rico about building with bitcoin and the Lightning Network! Thanks for all your work organizing the event and we were honored to take part 🙏

Catch our founder @HannahMR speaking on everything you can build with Bitcoin and the Lightning Network ⚡️ Happening today at the BUIDL Here conference in San Juan, PR! 🏝️ #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #BUIDLHere