Often people ask me why do you stay in crypto? AI’s progress is eating the word, but there is always another side of the coin. What I like and why I’m staying in the crypto space in particularly around Nostr and bitcoin, it is because the goal is the individuals. Not the pure progress. Focusing on creating more freedom, more decentralization and more purpose for human behavior should be to goal!

What happens when a SaaS company loses access to the platform that owns its audience? Most businesses don't realize they rent their customer relationships. Open identity protocols are interesting because they allow users and businesses to retain ownership independently of any platform.

There’s no Stripe solution for Lightning payments—and that’s crazy. While stablecoins get all the Stripe integrations, if you want a sovereign business on sound money, Lightning is the only way. Without it, you’re left managing compliance and taxes all on your own

Web3 proved we can build global peer-to-peer systems — and also that complexity is just attack surface in disguise; Bitcoin’s real innovation wasn’t programmability, it was constraint, and the next wave of builders will win by designing less, not more.

Bitcoin makes a different bet: conservatism over expressiveness, physics over governance, simplicity over feature velocity. That bet has compounded for 15 years.

We just shipped a major upgrade to pricestr.xyz — pushing Bitcoin price discovery further into true decentralization. We’ve added new integrations with Hyperliquid, Chainlink and Uniswap, to build a broader, more resilient BTC price signal. Instead of relying on a single source of truth, pricestr now aggregates: - On-chain liquidity signals (Oracle, DEX pricing + AMMs) - Off-chain oracle data feeds - Peer-to-peer market pricing from perps and trading venues The result: a more robust, censorship-resistant Bitcoin price that better reflects how markets actually behave across ecosystems. This is what decentralization looks like in practice — not just ideology, but infrastructure.

Bitcoin builders are such a great community. Discuss with few of them today ! Enlighten folks seeking more recognition and sustainability to create open source for a better Bitcoin usage.

Web3 builders are used to decentralize compute, front end but when it comes to price it still remains centralized. Decade in crypto space and it is a missing point: decentralized price distribution for dApp developers. Would you be interested in such tooling ?

We keep underestimating what Bitcoin actually solved. Not just “digital money.” Not just “store of value.” But something far more foundational: How do you establish a tamper-resistant, globally consistent record of events without relying on any trusted intermediary? The answer is the Bitcoin timechain. At its core, it provides something rare in distributed systems: finality anchored in physical reality. Through proof-of-work, Bitcoin makes history expensive to rewrite and cheap to verify. Each block is a timestamped commitment to what happened, enforced not by authority—but by thermodynamics. This is why Bitcoin is more than a monetary network. It is the most secure ledger of events ever created. And that framing opens up a different way to think about building on top of it. If Bitcoin is the global anchor for truth, then the real design space is no longer about recreating trust—it’s about composing systems that inherit Bitcoin’s guarantees: protocols that need verifiable history systems that require immutable ordering applications that benefit from censorship resistance coordination layers that don’t assume trusted intermediaries We’re still early in exploring what it means to build with a base layer that makes history costly to alter. The question shifts from “how do we trust this system?” to “what becomes possible when we don’t need to?” Bitcoin isn’t just money infrastructure. It’s a global consensus primitive for reality itself.

Would that interest you to get a pure lightning payment solution self custodial Nostr based with no processor fee cut and l402 oriented ?

Did you know blockchain is a court — not a ledger. Every time you push a simple transaction on-chain, you're essentially escalating a minor interaction to the highest, most expensive layer of trust. That’s inefficient, slow, and fundamentally misunderstood The real architecture?Use the base layer as it was meant to be used: settlement, arbitration, fraud detection. And move everything else off-chain. That’s exactly what Lightning does. Lightning turns Bitcoin into a high-speed network for real-world usage, while the base layer remains the ultimate source of truth when it actually matters: channel opens, closes, and dispute resolution. The winners of the next cycle won’t just use blockchain. They’ll use it correctly.

For those who are interesting to use HTTP auth using NIP-98, we just open-sourced a decoder to help you create valid tokens. Try it out:

NIP-98 Decoder

I’ve been playing with passkey and Bitcoin wallet. This was such a @Breez ⚡️ Self-custodial with great UX without need to backup keys or passphrase. You can check it out at bitlasso.xyz

Web auth is still broken for a cryptographic and agentic world. We’re building sovereign systems on top of centralized identity assumptions. OAuth, OpenID, even WebAuthn — better security, same paradigm: → third parties → hardware constraints → trust models not built for key-native users Problem: Users, agents, APIs need to authenticate with keys, not accounts. While building a Nostr-based invoicing app, one question kept coming up: How do you prove a request actually comes from the pubkey that owns the data? Answer: NIP-98. Signed HTTP requests. Identity proven at the protocol layer. No passwords. No intermediaries. No “login” in the traditional sense. Your pubkey becomes your passport. This is where Bitcoin × Nostr is heading: → simpler systems → sovereign identity → cryptographic trust by default I’m working with teams exploring this stack — auth, payments, architecture. If you’re building in identity or decentralized infra, let’s connect.

TIL: to be protected against data leak particularly with email , you can create an alias email by just adding ‘+website’ after your email id. ‘samuel+amazon@domain.com’ So great hack !

USDB is interesting because it pushes a real tension in Bitcoin forward: Do we want Bitcoin-denominated UX with stable purchasing power… even if it introduces new trust assumptions? USDB offers smoother payments, unit stability, and potentially yield — powerful tools for adoption. But Bitcoin’s core value has always been sovereignty, censorship resistance, and self-custody. That tradeoff matters. The debate isn’t “USDB bad, Bitcoin good.” It’s: How much convenience should we trade for decentralization? Stablecoin layers may onboard the next billion. Sovereign Bitcoin protects why the network matters in the first place. Both forces may coexist — but they pull in different directions. UX & yield vs freedom & decentralization is becoming one of the biggest design questions in Bitcoin. What matters is being honest about the tradeoffs.

This is the kind of great intersection between AI and decentralized technology like Nostr! View quoted note →

As a business trying to accept Bitcoin in the Nostr era - You don’t just want to “accept Bitcoin”. - You want to receive value natively. You want Instant. Permissionless. No friction. So you start looking for a way to plug it into your business. And… nothing really feels right. Too many layers, too much friction. What you really want is simple. Self-custodial, decentralized and loyalty oriented. This is what I built:

bitlasso - Repeated Bitcoin payments for businesses

Create self-custodial Lightning payment checkouts, mint Bitcoin-anchored loyalty receipts, and turn one-time work into repeat revenue with programm...

It’s funny how this things evolve. Few years ago when people asked me about AI and blockchain I was really skeptical, as they were completely different world: - one is completely decentralized - the other one is based on centralized data Today we are facing the emergence of those two worlds from the agentic revolution. There are not anymore siloed. Decentralization and AI is moving as speed of light. Always recognize your wrong and moves ahead it is what makes human progress. So now I think AI can be a strong case to make blockchain and decentralization a growth catalyst and bring more adoption. But it goes beyond, Nostr is moving really fast to embrace that movement. Future of decentralization and AI seems to promise great things !

Everyone’s talking about “agentic AI,” but here’s a real use case for builders. Analytics is still painfully manual—whether it’s Google Analytics or Plausible. Then I tried PostHog. One command: npx -y @posthog/wizard@latest --region eu With Anthropic’s Claude, it: • Understands your code • Adds event tracking automatically • Sets everything up No manual tagging. Just useful analytics. This is what AI should be: → Understand your product → Integrate itself → Deliver real value Not hype—actual leverage.