I’m so proud of the Strike team. Focused. Relentless. Mission-driven. We build through every bit of feedback, criticism, and even the FUD others spin to promote themselves by attacking us. For what it’s worth, none of the people accusing us of being criminals, liars, smooth talkers, or any of the other nonsense ever reach out to me directly. Not once. If they genuinely cared, they’d give me a call. But instead, they skip that part and post on Twitter, trying to boost themselves by tearing us down. That’s not accountability. That's self-promotion dressed up as concern. I’ve been dealing with this kind of thing for a while now. I’m used to it. But being the leader of some incredible people and watching them work so hard for Bitcoin, sometimes you have to open your nostr client and have their back. The Strike team is world class. Don't trust all of the nonsense you read. A lot of people's recent marketing strategies are to shit on me and my businesses. We’re at 1,500 BTC and stacking with every ounce of profits. Not bad for the five-year-old startup that could. That’s a whole lot of proof of work. 🫡 image

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Estelle Hermann 8 months ago
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king 8 months ago
Stay humble stack sats 😎
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HoloKat 8 months ago
If you do anything of significance, eventually you get haters. It’s natural.
A lot of peeps here extremely appreciative and impressed by what you and your teams have done to this point. The silent majority.
13% interest is still predatory in a world where Bitcoin is supposed to free people from debt slavery, not rebrand it. If you truly believe in Bitcoin, do everything possible not to sell or borrow against it unless you're in an emergency or running a high-conviction, profitable business. Borrowing fiat to go on a trip or buy a car is the same fiat mindset just with new packaging. Jack has turned into a fiat loan shark. Not to be trusted.
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RockoCocko 8 months ago
There's a reason I'm always shilling Strike as the best way to purchase your Bitcoin. Great software, great company and an excellent leader. Keep up the good work! ... Nice work on bringing AUD accounts to Strike in the near future too!
Keep up the great work, jack. Would love to have you on the show to talk about everything you’re building.
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Benking 8 months ago
Congrats, the app is excellent.🫶🏼🚀🧡
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RenaissanceMan 8 months ago
You’ve been great to me through every complaint. So here’s my latest one: Do you have a loan product available to California residents currently? How can I apply?
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NostrGarden 8 months ago
Welcome to the human race and our propensity to spread FUD for personal gain. Makes us feel good at the expense of others. Terribly sad. 😔
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Deleted Account 8 months ago
Yeah, I'd just remind you that we're not on the practice round of life, this is it. This is the one. If there's something you want to do with your life, don't let money, hard or not get in the way. There's nothing wrong with debt, be it monetary, a favour to your neighbour, a cheeky beer or two to your health. Life happens on the middle ground. He's offering a product with unique tradeoffs, you don't have to buy it, get on with life.
The people who are going to use the product are going to leverage less than 15% of their bitcoin annually. If bitcoin's cagr holds up, this isn't an issue, and the apr is less than the taxes on selling the bitcoin. I don't see a problem if it is used judiciously.
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frenchHODL 8 months ago
Congrats Jack and the Strike team. Proud customer 🫡
haters gonna hate. Some people might not agree with what you're selling, guess what, they don't have to buy your products.
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Jamie 8 months ago
Congrats to you and your team! I hope you still have plans to bring Strike to Canada 😎
No matter what good you do, there is always somebody out there that will be harmed by your actions. It’s the way of the world. Strive to limit the harm you do by listening, and strive to do as much good as you can. That’s all anybody could really ask of themselves.
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Martin Mladenov 8 months ago
That’s some serious proof of work! Haters will always sling mud to prop themselves up—it’s just noise from people too scared to build something themselves. Keep doing what you do, and don’t let the FUD slow you down.
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Mark Murphy 8 months ago
Only had one interaction with the team and have to say it was best in class customer service.
I use Strike for stacking as well, but I don't leave my stack on Strike for the same reason I wouldn't leave my stack with any custodian. Instead, I "stack" by sending USD from Strike to my own Lightning wallet hosted on my own full-node. Then, when I get enough built up, I swap it out to on-chain cold-storage via Boltz.exchange. If you don't have your own full-node yet, you can use another self-custody Lightning wallet, such as Phoenix or Zeus for where you are building up enough for a UTXO to send to cold storage. Either way, you end up only ever having a relatively small amount in Lightning at any given time, and NONE in a custodian. Even one as solid as Strike.
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Bang 8 months ago
It's true, I brought up some concerns and Jack responded to me directly. They are transparent/responsive. Oh, hilarious notification drop btw lol image
When will you add Australia currency? I really wanted to use strike but it's kinda useless when I'm limited to USDT or foreign currencies. It was strange that it wanted my bank details when it can't send money to my bank or receive money from my bank. I gave away all my information before I found out the app doesn't do au$. Please let me know when you do add au$ or if anyone has suggestions for an alternative I'd appreciate that to.