Today's presentation:
Architecting a Self-Sovereign Economy
We have been working in stealth mode for the past 20 months with a team of engineers and designers to prepare an ambitious new company building products for Bitcoin.
1/25
Today, we released the first iteration of SlashPay, a payment negotiation method for all
#Bitcoin
payment methods.
Let's go into detail on why we made this, what it is, and how it works!
🧵 1/19
Blocktank LSP⚡️ is almost ready!
We keep adding more cool stuff to it, causing more delays, sorry!
In the meantime, check out this excerpt with our CEO, John Carvalho, and
@piriya
!
Join us next week for a discussion about the current limitations of ⚡️Lightning Network tech, and how these can be improved in the future!
We have an amazing lineup planned with
@TheBlueMatt
,
@Snyke
, and
@realtbast
!
Set a reminder here:
This year a private venture capital fund between $20-50 million will be deployed to grow the Slashtags & Holepunch ecosystem.
Expect many apps like
@keet_io
&
@bitkitwallet
to be launched.
Stay tuned.
We are excited to release the alpha version of our mobile implementation of
@lightningdevkit
in React Native!
We're currently testing this for our upcoming mobile wallet app.
Feel free to try it out & contribute!
Here's the full video of the first
#Tether
/ stablecoin token Lightning channel, in case you didn't catch it on YouTube!
Look for a new wallet that supports Lightning tokens from us this Summer!
Stablecoins are useful.
There is no denying this, and no need for excuses.
And you can rely solely on the Bitcoin blockchain to use them.
One chain, one economy.
We released a code library for adding a Neutrino Lightning node to your mobile app using React Native.
This allows RN apps to easily give their users a way to hold their own keys when using Lightning!
Get in touch if you need help adding LN to your app!
We have released this OmniBOLT javascript library so you can prepare your application for supporting tokens on Lightning when they're ready in a few months.
You can be right there with us as we launch instant token capabilities, instant Tether, and more.
We're excited to announce the addition of our new hands-on CTO, Reza Bandegi!
Reza formerly worked at Bitfinex and led their Lightning Network efforts. He has been at the forefront of using Bitcoin & Lighting in production for years, and we're so happy to have him on the team!
As a community we need to build and support non-custodial apps and services that replace modern finance and allow users to stop trusting banks and government fiat forever.
5/25
Satoshi literally invented Bitcoin to obsolete the banking system, but here we are celebrating every time we get news about a new ETF, or some custodial Bitcoin startup raises another ten million dollars.
4/25
Exciting news! You can now get Lightning channels from
@blocktank
within your
@bitfinex
account.
We've joined forces to provide you with one more way to onboard to the Lightning Network in a sovereign manner.
Read on to discover more about our latest integration:
Blocktank includes many features and tools!
First, have a look at the Blocktank Web Widget. In this video,
@jayvdb1
does a walkthrough and shows how you can use Blocktank API to serve a web interface.
You can try it here:
Join us on June 3 for a special episode of Synonym Spaces with
@francispouliot_
&
@BitcoinErrorLog
about...
☣️BITCOIN MAXIMALISM☣️
Set a reminder here:
The last 2 years of this “plandemic” have shown us that governments are not only willing to surveil our internet behavior and bank transactions, but also capable of restricting our access to services and removing our freedoms with Vax passes and other forms of coercion.
10/25
Announcing Backpack, which allows wallet apps to offer their own free hosting of encrypted wallet/state backups for their users.
Don't trust iCloud?
Don't want Google Drive slurping your data?
Don't want to pay for Dropbox?
Serve a backpack-host!
We all talk about hyperbitcoinization like it will magically happen on its own someday, but what would it actually be like to live in a world that does not have megabanks, or regulations, or Big Tech controlling every aspect of our lives?
3/25
Synonym is a new Tether-owned company created to make products that strictly use Bitcoin as the only blockchain.
We have designed a strategy & ecosystem of products that will empower Bitcoiners to opt into an entirely alternative social economy.
2/25
Mobile Wallet:
We believe all wallets should be non-custodial, thus ours will allows you to hold your own keys for Bitcoin, Lightning Channels, and even tokens on Lightning
7/25
Lightning Service Providers are the key to unlocking instant
#bitcoin
payments, eliminating the need for custodial wallets. LSPs offer convenience without any compromises.
Learn more:
Big Tech and most popular websites and apps have become a cancer to our privacy and freedom by locking us in to walled gardens where they can freely censor us and farm our private information, while selling it to advertisers and governments.
17/25
We're hiring designers!
Do you have experience designing for apps, solving UX flows for Bitcoin use cases, or making amazing web applications?
Apply here:
Slashtags are safer and easier to use than email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords.
In 2022, we will demonstrate and deliver several apps that allow you to use Slashtags for ... everything.
Blocktank:
To make things even easier, we have created a service for any website, platform, or app to add non-custodial Lightning services for their users.
Configure, buy, renew, automate, and manage Lightning connections whether your team runs a node or not.
8/25
Why Tokens on LN?
Bringing Lightning’s instant and cheap transactions to retail can allow us to replace our trust in the dollar by enabling the merchants you love to issue any redeemable credit you can imagine: gift tokens, tickets, or subscriptions, or hamburger tokens.
9/25
@TomZarebczan
@joegesualdo
We do not do business in the US jurisdiction, we do not serve US customers, and we do not want exposure to the US regulatory system.
If you can't solve for an economy using one blockchain, you can't solve for an economy using multiple blockchains.
Start with Bitcoin, make it work. If for some reason altchains remain relevant, they will at least have a model for success.
One chain, one economy.
Decentralized Social Media:
The second web platform is actually two apps that will show you how we can totally replace Twitter and Facebook with a truly decentralized and uncensorable method of social networking built with Slashtags.
20/25
Slashtags:
For the past year, we have been designing a new protocol for the web that allows you to decide how you share and find information, while controlling your own web accounts and passwords in the same secure way that you hold your Bitcoin.
12/25
Watch the full video of the Synonym announcement presentation from the
@AdoptingBTC
conference in El Salvador!
Architecting a Self-Sovereign Economy
by John Carvalho, CEO
The Atomic Economy is a concept that combines the ideas of a circular economy with a web of trust to form a highly efficient and relative social economy. If we can achieve minimal conversion and minimal data redundancy, we can replace the legacy economy.
23/25
Slashtags leverages a localized Web of Trust model to create interoperable, uncensorable private networks that connect via encrypted private channels and feeds, all without using any blockchain at all.
13/25
Proof of Workshop: Slashtags & P2P applications on the schedule for
@cuboplus
students today
Lecturers:
@jwburgers
and
@DZd1d1
Salvadoran students are winning
🇸🇻🧢🏆
Publishing Platform:
Our publishing platform is a search and publishing platform that gives you every tool you might need to create and monetize literally any type of data, content, or service you can digitally express.
19/25
No matter how hard we try to design a private, uncensorable economy for hyperbitcoinization, none of it matters if you keep giving your trust to people that don’t deserve it.
With Slashtags and our other products, we can address many more use cases, if you embrace it.
21/25
We will be working hard this Winter to get out the first few apps and services in our ecosystem.
2022 is going to bring a lot of new utility to Bitcoin!
While we mostly hire experienced engineers, we get a lot of inquiries from young, excited devs too!
We open-source everything we create at Synonym.
If you want a better chance of making a place for yourself with us, or in Bitcoin, here are some ways you can do that:
1/3
NEW JOB OPENING:
React Native Front-End Developer
You will be a part of the mobile wallet app team. Our wallet utilizes Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, OmniBOLT, Slashtags, and the Hypercore Protocol.
Here's the full video of Paolo Ardoino & John Carvalho discussing the relevance and use cases for
#LightningNetwork
⚡️ tokens on Bitcoin.
Watch to learn more!
NOW HIRING
*** Business Developer ***
We're looking for someone to assist with adoption & integration of our products (Blocktank LSP, Lightning tokens, Slashtags, etc), and with community growth and code contribution to our protocols & code libraries.
Now Hiring: NodeJS Engineers
We are looking for engineers that can build, improve, and maintain novel web platforms that utilize Bitcoin, Lightning, Slashtags, and Hypercore.
(USA citizens & USA residents are not eligible for this position.)
Now Hiring: Front-End Developers
You will be a part of a team that works on the development of our web products that utilize Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, Slashtags, and Hypercore.
(USA citizens & USA residents are not eligible for this position.)
NOW HIRING
Web-of-Trust Architect
We are looking for someone to help us design & deliver a system that establishes relative reputation networks with data that is filtered & weighted using semantic attributes.
Learn more:
We're excited,
@TheGuySwann
is excited, are you excited?
Listen to the latest interview with Synonym CEO, John Carvalho, and Guy Swann today!
Apple:
Spotify:
Google:
Mobile Wallet:
We believe all wallets should be non-custodial, thus ours will allows you to hold your own keys for Bitcoin, Lightning Channels, and even tokens on Lightning
7/25
Shitcoins are mostly just recreating all the same problems of fiat and regulations.
We are making tools to help people align and connect on their own terms, with ways to build reputation, even as pseudonyms.
The last 2 years of this “plandemic” have shown us that governments are not only willing to surveil our internet behavior and bank transactions, but also capable of restricting our access to services and removing our freedoms with Vax passes and other forms of coercion.
10/25
NOW HIRING!
** C++ Bitcoin Developer / Engineer **
You will be responsible for building high-quality, performant code and tests for Bitcoin's token meta-protocol: Omni, which must be kept up-to-date while adding features for Taproot & Lightning Network.
Next week, we'll release ⚡️Blocktank, a new open-source solution for Lightning nodes to buy & sell channel liquidity, balancing, and routing services.
Join us May 1st on Synonym Spaces with
@therealkingonly
,
@r32a_
, and
@BitcoinErrorLog
to learn more!
Are you confused as to why a Bitcoin maximalist like
@BitcoinErrorLog
would work on bringing tokens to the Lightning Network?
Learn how tokenized products & services unlock finance and support capitalism within a Bitcoin atomic economy in this video!
We can combine Webs of Trust with Bitcoin to create an Atomic Economy where everyone holds only the data they need, and actively curates who to trust and share their content with.
22/25
Our core team has grown to 10 amazing Bitcoiners!
We're so excited to share things we're working on as soon as possible, but we still need more help!
Apply for our open roles here:
Yesterday, at the Lugano PlanB Forum conference, we launched a range of new products, services, and protocols, to help with hyperbitcoinization.
Learn more about
@bitkitwallet
,
@slashtags_to
, and
@blocktank
at our new website:
Please help spread the word about our open job positions.
We are looking for motivated, talented Bitcoiners that sincerely want to make the future of Bitcoin happen faster.
Apply here:
We're proud to announce our sponsorship of the upcoming
#LightningHackdayIST
in Istanbul on February 25th-27th!
Get ready for great presentations and projects all using ⚡️Lightning Network technology!
Learn more: