Michael Rihani
@MichaelRihani
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Product Director @Coinbase . Ex-Tesla, Pay, Cash App.
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Thrilled to announce I've joined
@coinbase
! I'll be leading teams focused on non-trading products in our main consumer app, including Cash (USDC & Savings), Spend (Coinbase Card), Onchain Transfers (Send & Receive), Borrow & Yield, and Payment Rails in Emerging Markets.
I'm
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We did it!!!
You can now buy a Tesla with
#Bitcoin
All my worlds are colliding:
Apple Pay + Bitcoin + Tesla = ♥️
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Just orange pilled a friend over lunch today. She asked for more resources, so I gave her:
- 5
#bitcoin
books
- 1 Bolt Card
- 1 bookmark
Retweet this and I’ll choose one winner in 24 hours to receive a box full of the same 7 resources — shipped for free, anywhere in the world.
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@saylor
@saifedean
@Apple
@saylor
when
@erickuhn19
and I worked at Apple Pay 4 years ago, we told executives the same exact thing. 🥱 Hence I went to work for CEOs who really understand
#Bitcoin
,
@elonmusk
and now
@jack
⚡️
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Never used
@Lightning
before? Let me be your first. 💰⚡️
- Download
@bluewalletio
- Create a Lightning wallet
- Tap 'Receive' and create an invoice for 500 sats
- Reply here with your invoice
- I will send
#Bitcoin
If you’re in Lebanon, send proof and request 5,000 sats. 💚🇱🇧
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The two biggest software inventions in our lifetimes, are also the two most important, inclusive, and amoral technologies on the planet:
1. The internet
2.
#Bitcoin
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To celebrate the ⚡️ launch today… Here is a video of the first ever Lightning payment on
@CashApp
.
Legendary
@milessuter
buying a beer in
#ElSatsador
🇸🇻 🍻
Easy, fast, and free – the way it should be.
#Bitcoin
Lightning Network is now available on Cash App. It's the fastest, free way to pay anyone in bitcoin.
Buy tacos, tip your favorite Twitter comedian, or send a friend money abroad—anywhere that accepts lightning.
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Cash App announced 3 new
#bitcoin
products at
#Bitcoin2022
:
1⃣ Paid in Bitcoin – auto-invest a % of your paycheck into bitcoin.
2⃣ Bitcoin Round Ups – auto-invest your spare change into bitcoin.
3⃣ Lightning Network – receive bitcoin instantly.
All are FREE and have 0% fees.
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/6. Money Printer Go Brrr: It’s only a matter of time before people won’t accept the cotton anymore. Corn🌽 > cotton. 👩🎨:
@LinaSeiche
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Last Friday was my last day at Cash App. Thank you
@jack
,
@cashappowen
, and
@milessuter
for an incredible 3-year journey!
Proud of what we built:
@CashApp
Lightning Network,
@Square
Bitcoin Conversions, and
@Blocks
Bitcoin DCA, to name a few. 🚀
As I dedicate the rest of my
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No hesitation. No politics. Tesla is one of the most collaborative places I’ve ever seen. Furthermore, Tesla has some of the nicest and smartest engineers I’ve ever worked with…
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/1. Money is Broken: The United States,
@USTreasury
, and
@federalreserve
have printed ~30% of all U.S. dollars in existence, in the last year. Furthermore, if you had $100 in 1913, today it would only be worth about $3.
#Bitcoin
fixes this.
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/12. El Salvador🇸🇻:
It took 20 years for 1.8 million Salvadorans to have a bank account.
It took 20 days for 2.2 million Salvadorans to have a bitcoin wallet.
I can’t wait to visit
@BitcoinBeach
and meet folks in the community soon! ⚡️🌋
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@elonmusk
Your plane isn’t “anyone.”
Your plane’s data is also public information.
Free speech!*
*as long as it doesn’t hurt Elon
**ok just kidding, speech is $8/mo as long as it’s said 24 hours later
My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk
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/2. P2P is Broken: Sending $100 from the U.S. to other countries in the world costs about $7 and takes 3-5 business days to arrive. With
#Bitcoin
and
@Lightning
, it’s practically free and arrives instantly. Bitcoin fixes this.
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Because we stand around a circle table, throw a difficult engineering problem on that table, and everyone — from the SVP, to product, to engineers, to interns (who started yesterday) — look at that problem, rollup up their sleeves, and immediately dive into solving it, together…
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/7. Gold 2.0: The more I learn about bitcoin, the more I respect gold. The more I learn about gold, the more I appreciate bitcoin.
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Now you can gift
#bitcoin
or stock with
@CashApp
! Just in time for the holidays 🎁
Drop your $cashtag below and I’ll randomly gift 21 folks bitcoin over the next 21 hours 🧡
With Cash App, you can now send as little as $1 in stock or bitcoin. It’s as easy as sending cash, and you don't need to own stock or bitcoin to gift it. So this holiday season, forget the scented candles or novelty beach towel, and help your cousin start investing.
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The Lebanese currency has lost 95% of its value to inflation since September 2019.
Four days in inflation-ravaged Lebanon with "The Bitcoin Standard" author Dr. Saifedean Ammous
@saifedean
🇱🇧
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/3. Trusting Math: As
@bhorowitz
of
@a16z
said, “Crypto has one feature that has never existed before, and that’s – trust. Trust is super powerful. It comes from the mathematical and game theoretic properties of the platform. That means you don’t have to trust the government, ...
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You have to develop your instincts, trust your intuition, and ruthlessly prioritize and tackle the highest ROI work first. I developed a constant bias towards action and found myself getting more done in a day than I used to get done in a week. 🏎💨
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Hey
@jack
, I work for
@CashApp
... now I and millions of others can get their paycheck in
#bitcoin
(with 0% fees) using Cash App. Thank you.
Congrats
@milessuter
@RussellOkung
@AaronRodgers12
@joeworkcash
@forrestbice
@robseward
@annabloom
@rockymedure
and team!
#PaidInBitcoin
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@moizali
Coming everyday increases costs and decreases revenue. Gyms survive today on 80% of people not showing up but paying. That way the gym can oversell their capacity.
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3.
#Passion
: It doesn’t feel like work when you’re surrounded by stunning colleagues who are aligned to a north star mission - like accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy. ⚡️🌎
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Props to
@baglino
and all the engineering leaders for creating such a culture and assembling an all-star team that constantly executes and ships game-changing products. 👷♀️👏
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I am taking a short break and am excited about my next endeavor starting in October. Stay tuned…
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2.
#Engineering
: Tesla is the
#1
place undergraduate engineering students want to work. Why?
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/8. Double Digit Inflation: The majority of the world’s population lives in a country that experiences double digit inflation, every year.
#Bitcoin
fixes this.
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@jack
@brian_armstrong
We at
@CashApp
integrated using
@lightningdevkit
by
@spiralbtc
. Our team is happy to jump on a call, share our learnings, and help however we can. 🤝
Highly recommend unifying the BTC onchain address and the Lightning invoice into one unified QR code —
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/10. Decentralized: Bitcoin is truly unstoppable. We’ve never seen anything like this before. An asset that:
✅ Cannot be censored by authorities
✅ Cannot be devalued by governments
✅ Cannot easily be mass surveilled
✅ Cannot be stopped by borders
✅ Can be accessed by anyone
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Incentives matter.
@TIDAL
sets a high standard for supporting artists, capturing music culture, and delivering the best audio quality to fans.
#DeleteAppleMusic
#DeleteAmazonMusic
#DeleteSpotify
#DeleteYouTubeMusic
#DeletePandora
#DeleteDeezer
Source:
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Special shout-out and thank you to my manager, Rebecca Tinucci — for taking a flyer on me, investing in me along the way, and teaching me an incredible amount about excellent leadership…
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/19. Sats the Standard: We’re moving from a Fiat Standard to a new Bitcoin Standard. My timeline:
2020-2025: Store of value (a better savings account)
2025-2030: Medium of exchange (some countries and people use bitcoin for goods)
2030+: Unit of account (goods are priced in sats)
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Best job, company, product (
@TeslaCharging
), and team I’ve ever had. I’m going to miss working with such great colleagues. Thank you, E.
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Cash App Bitcoin Market.
Sat May 20th.
12-8pm.
1100 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL.
Experience a traditional marketplace with a modern
#bitcoin
twist.
A peer-to-peer market.
Buy yourself a snack, add something exciting to your wardrobe, get your nails done, buy some tulips for
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She leads by example, brings positivity to everything and everyone she engages with and is one of the hardest working people I know. Thank you, R.
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/17.
#BitcoinTwitter
and the Community: Bitcoiners are some of the most intelligent, passionate, and forward thinking visionaries and freedom fighters that I’ve ever met. I'm going to bring grit, passion, and kindness to my work. Thank you for being here. Please DM me, anytime.
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#Bitcoin
2010 - No one uses it.
2012 - Only computer nerds use it.
2014 - Only drug dealers use it.
2017 - Only gamblers use it.
2019 - Only a small % of the population uses it.
2021 - Only small countries use it.
...
..
.
2030 - Only small planets use it.
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@CashApp
announced 3 new
#bitcoin
products at
#Bitcoin2022
:
1⃣ Paid in Bitcoin – auto-invest a % of your paycheck into bitcoin.
2⃣ Bitcoin Round Ups – auto-invest your spare change into bitcoin.
3⃣ Lightning Network – receive bitcoin instantly.
All are FREE and have 0% fees.
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@moneyball
@jasonfried
@coinbase
@brian_armstrong
@tobi
@CommerceCB
@ViktorBunin
@SavithaSameer
Confirmed that Coinbase Commerce doesn’t accept payments from self custody
#bitcoin
wallets or other apps anymore. All buyers must have a Coinbase account to pay. 😔
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/11. Lebanon🇱🇧: Over the past 2 years, our friends and family have lost over 90% of their wealth due to corruption and a bank-run Ponzi scheme. The World Bank even calls it "one of the most severe global crises" () in over 150 years.
#Bitcoin
fixes this.
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/5. Separation of Money and State: If you take the money printer away from the federal government, then they acknowledge on their own .gov website that their primary purpose & power is war. See Q41 – –
@JoeBiden
@SecDef
@SecYellen
@JasonPLowery
@USCIS
👀
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/3. ...or Twitter and Facebook, or the other people even on the network. You just have to trust math. That opens a very interesting world for developers because you can build new applications – like money. Which nobody has ever been able to program money before, but now you can.”
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/18. Run the Numbers: The math is simple and the choice is yours. CEOs (
@elonmusk
@saylor
), politicians (
@AndrewYang
@CynthiaMLummis
), athletes (
@RussellOkung
@TomBrady
), celebrities (
@theestallion
@BustaRhymes
), and plebs alike are running the numbers. 👨🎨:
@luchopolettiart
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/16. Bitcoin Incentivizes Renewable Energy:
#Bitcoin
transforms sunlight, wind, flowing water, and volcanic heat into the hardest and fastest money on Earth.
@Square
@SquareCrypto
@ARKInvest
explain how Bitcoin is key to an abundant, clean energy future –
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Hey
@elonmusk
, want me to send you 69,420 sats via
@Lightning
? Send me an invoice!
Never used
@Lightning
before? Let me be your first. 💰⚡️
- Download
@bluewalletio
- Create a Lightning wallet
- Tap 'Receive' and create an invoice for 500 sats
- Reply here with your invoice
- I will send
#Bitcoin
If you’re in Lebanon, send proof and request 5,000 sats. 💚🇱🇧
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Block ($SQ) Cash App announces it's integrating with Lightning Network -- letting U.S. users send bitcoin globally, for free 💸
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P.S. – We’re hiring: – Apply directly or DM if you want to learn more. 👩💻🚀
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Filling up the gasoline tank in a standard vehicle in Lebanon now costs more than the monthly minimum wage.
Many people are spending 75% of their fiat salary just on fuel to go to and from work.
Lebanon needs the
#Bitcoin
standard.
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Lebanon is what pushed me over the edge to work full time on
#Bitcoin
I’ll be in Lebanon in a few months.
Please tag any bitcoiners, nocoiners, politicians, leaders, artists, or just good people I should meet. I’d love to learn more, listen, or help however I can. Thank you. 🙏
The world watches as thieving bureaucrats loot the currency of a once proud nation 🇱🇧
Depositors of foreign currencies will have 75% of their savings forcibly converted to the local collapsing pound, with a promise to "pay them back" in 15 years
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/13. Better Bitcoin Hardware UX: Pumped to see
@JesseDorogusker
+
@jack
announce that we're working on this. Free newsletter to receive updates and to be involved:
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Thank you
@milesuter
@owenbjennings
@jack
and
@CashApp
for the opportunity. I’m grateful and humbled to be a part of the dream team. Also, thank you for the awesome cash money $ swag. We may need to add some ₿ specific swag into future new employee bags. I’ll get on it 🙃
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/15. Banks -> Fintech -> Crypto: Whether they know it today or not, I believe fintech companies will become crypto companies. You can already see it happening with the
@Stripe
Crypto news yesterday (). I have used these apps. What else should I check out?
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As an
#ApplePay
PM for 4 years, and now a
#Bitcoin
PM at
@CashApp
, this is the ultimate compliment. Thank you – made my day. 🙏
It's surreal to see my (and the community's) magical bitcoin UX dreams coming true!
Magic. Internet. Money. 🪄⚡💰
👇
Just bought this shirt from
@ltngstore
using
@CashApp
and sending
#bitcoin
with the
#Lightning
Network...
My experience was identical to the first time I used
#applepay
... I think we are on to something.
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A message from the CEO of Apple in the year 2032:
“At Apple, we believe that money is a fundamental right and at the core of what we do. That’s why we build
#Bitcoin
into everything from Safari to the Health app.“
At Apple, we believe that privacy is a fundamental right and at the core of what we do. That’s why we build privacy protections into everything from Safari to the Health app. For us,
#DataPrivacyDay
is every day.
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5 years ago, $10 LN sends were scary to me.
Today,
@coinbase
enables up to $10,000 LN sends, with ease and confidence.
Another step towards making
#bitcoin
and the Lightning Network more useful every day.
Impressed and proud of how fast the Coinbase team ships! ⚡
⚡️Lightning News!⚡️
@coinbase
customers can now send up to $10k instantly via Lightning powered by
@lightspark
! Thrilled to see the progress as people embrace faster, cheaper transfers worldwide. 🌍
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LFG!!! 🚀 I’m so
#JackedUp
right now!!
#Bitcoin
@milessuter
@owenbjennings
@Grassadonia
@jack
@brockm
@moneyball
@JesseDorogusker
@elonmusk
@CathieDWood
@saylor
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I'm hiring a technical Product Manager on the Supercharger team in Palo Alto, CA. ⚡️
Apply and optionally DM me a few bullet points on something you achieved, including specifics about the technical challenge and why you think it was hard.
@TeslaCharging
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@brian_armstrong
Great to hear!
@CashApp
was the first public company to integrate LN, so reach out if there is ever anything we can do for you,
@ViktorBunin
, and team. 🫡
So are
@RobinhoodApp
@PayPal
@Venmo
and
@X
next?
Wen Lightning
@elonmusk
?
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Great to hear!
@CashApp
was the first public company to integrate LN, so reach out if there is ever anything we can do for you,
@ViktorBunin
, and team. 🫡
So are
@RobinhoodApp
@PayPal
@Venmo
and
@X
next?
Wen Lightning
@elonmusk
?
The team did a great job digging into this, and we've made the decision to integrate Lightning. Bitcoin is the most important asset in crypto and we're excited to do our part to enable faster/cheaper Bitcoin transactions. Will take some time to integrate so please be patient.
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I'm hiring a PM Intern on the Supercharger team for Fall 2021. Please apply, DM me, or tag someone who would be a good fit!
Apply:
Tesla Team Video (3 min):
🚀
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The Lightning Network is a fully open, interoperable, low-cost, payment protocol that settles
#bitcoin
in real time.
Open protocols promote interoperability and innovation:
TCP/IP — INFORMATION
SMTP/POP — COMMUNICATION
VOIP — AUDIO
LIGHTNING — MONEY
Every second, over 3.4M
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When the Satoshi tee isn't even the story!
.
@nyjets
LB Quincy Williams stopped at a local lemonade stand and gave this kid a $100 tip 💚
(via
@quincywilliams_
)
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Life goals:
1. Make bitcoin better than Apple Pay
2. Apple Wallet + Apple Pay add bitcoin
Still one of the greatest Bitcoin tweets of all time
Ziya the 🐐
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