Graham Krizek
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Founder and CEO at @voltage_cloud | prev. @salesforce @nodesource @Ikigai_fund | Building the future of money on #Bitcoin | Nostr: graham @vlt .ge
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Ross Ulbricht is in jail and SBF is doing speaking engagements with Zelenskyyand Yellen. There’s nothing more infuriating.
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Just got off the phone with the IRS. Someone filed a fake tax return with my information. They said they have 7,700,000 fraudulent returns currently and it could be up to 600 days before my 2023 taxes are looked it.
Absolutely insane.
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I don't know what it is, but I'm feeling even more bullish on
#Bitcoin
and
#LightningNetwork
than usual. So much happening...
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Lightning is going mainstream ⚡️💪
An innovation to come out of the blockchain space is the Lightning Network, a protocol for sending money on the internet via
#Bitcoin
⚡
Read how
@voltage_cloud
, a LaaS provider, scales Bitcoin and Lightning Network infrastructure with Google Cloud ↓
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I like to recall videos like this from the early internet. People didn't understand what was happening then either. It just takes time and education. Before you know it, the entire world gets it.
In 1995, only two years after the birth of the worldwide web,
@BillGates
tried to explain ‘The Internet’ to Letterman.
Tech pioneers today face the same challenge as they describe AI and blockchain
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The
@MicroStrategy
conference was a huge success. Incredible to see the interest from so many organizations. It was a unique mix of people that made it really high signal. Never been more bullish on the direction we’re moving
#Bitcoin
and Lightning. ⚡️
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We’ll continue to see more blockchain abandonment. It makes no sense to use a blockchain for stuff like this. What does make sense is rewarding users in an internet native currency that can be used anywhere in the world, which is Bitcoin.
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1/⚡️It's time for a
@voltage_cloud
release!
Today, I'm really excited to share with you our new product called Flow 2.0.
This is brand new LSP that's focused on Just In Time liquidity.
This LSP will know when you need liquidity, then automatically make it happen. Lets go!👇
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1/ Today I’m putting out a piece I wrote called “Every Company will be a Lightning Company”.
In this piece I describe the move for more companies to include financial services in their products and how Bitcoin via Lightning is the optimal solution.
🧵👇
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Very excited to be working with
@BraiinsMining
to enable Lightning payouts. This is going to be a game changer for pools and a huge UX improvement for their customers.
@voltage_cloud
makes it so quick and easy there’s no reason not to.
Introducing Lightning payouts ⚡️
We are excited to be the first mining pool using the Lightning Network.
Our miners can now instantly receive rewards with no minimums or fees.
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1/ There’s been so much happening in the Lightning ecosystem. Lots of new ideas, new products, and new gaps to fill. With all this potential, I’ve seen lots of opportunities emerge. I wanted to take some time this week to share the things I’ve been witnessing.
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Come work with us! We have jobs in engineering, operations, and sales. Build the Lightning Network with us!
We are not simply hiring, we are seeking talented and passionate individuals who align with our mission.
To provide easy, scalable solutions to fast-track a Bitcoin standard.
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Unfortunately I won’t be able to make Lightning Summit at
@bitcoinpark_
because I just welcomed my 4th child into the world. I’ll be FOMOing from the sidelines but it’s going to be an awesome event. Anyone that’s going, be sure to say hi to our
@voltage_cloud
team!
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Today I am excited to share a short form, community driven, and live show that Voltage will be hosting every week.
I will be going live weekly with
@iBobbyShell
as my co-host discussing all the current events in Bitcoin and Lightning.
This isn’t another podcast, or 3 hour
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Today is the official 2 year anniversary of
@voltage_cloud
being ready for sign up. At the time I was just testing if there was interest (there def was). We’ve come a long way and I’m super excited for what we’ve got ahead of us. Couldn’t imagine a better team to do this. LFG⚡️🎉
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I haven't really tweeted in a long time but I'm going to try to pick it back up. The amount of building happening on Bitcoin and Lightning is insane. Sharing some of what's happening at
@voltage_cloud
and the greater ecosystem could be interesting for some.
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We've been pretty quiet about new product developments at
@voltage_cloud
. That will change at
@TheBitcoinConf
. 👀⚡️
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I'm raising the stakes on our open roles. I'll give $500 paid in
#Bitcoin
to any referrer AND candidate that gets hired. There's never been a better time to work on the
#LightningNetwork
. Join us!
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1/ Day 1 of my Lightning Market threads. First market opportunity is what I'm calling Infrastructure. Now, the term ‘infrastructure’ is highly overused to the point it doesn’t have much real meaning anymore. So first let me define what I mean here. 👇
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We started a new program at
@voltage_cloud
called FOSS Fridays. This is a day the entire company doesn't work on Voltage things, rather we work on Free and Open Source Software. Read more in our blog:
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1/ Today I’m very excited to share that we closed our Seed round at
@voltage_cloud
. We raised $6MM (14.2 Billion Sats) from some of the best investors in Bitcoin. The new funding will be used to fuel hiring and take the Voltage platform to the next level👇
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From our observation, more activity on the Lightning Network passes through
@voltage_cloud
infrastructure than any other platform.
Pairing that with the fact that we’re one of the longest running providers, we’ve gained an incredible amount of insights. But now what? 👇
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@amasad
For sure! We already got
@voltage_cloud
integrated with Replit. Hit us up and we can get it done in a day ⚡️
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2024 will be a huge year for
@voltage_cloud
. We are quietly creating the best platform for Bitcoin builders. No hype. No bullshit. Just value creation. Lots to come.
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I think what happened to Samourai is the biggest risk to Fedimints. They aren’t 1 to 1, but I think governments arresting a group of guardians is more likely than a rouge group of guardians.
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1/ We’re coming up on the end of 2022 and it’s been a wild year. Thinking back to where the
#LightningNetwork
and
@voltage_cloud
were this time last year is mind blowing. However, instead of reviewing the year, I wanted to take some time to talk about the future of Voltage. 👇
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@brian_armstrong
Our team at
@voltage_cloud
has built this several times over. We’d love to help build this in-house for
@coinbase
to satisfy your on-prem requirement but not have to do it all from scratch. DMs open. 📞⚡️
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@voltage_cloud
drastically reduces the friction required to build on Bitcoin and Lightning TODAY. No waiting, no coming soon. With our platform you can sign up without KYC and start sending/receiving Lightning payments within minutes. Let's checkout what's possible 🧵
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Want to see what
@voltage_cloud
looked like when I launched it?
Moral of the story; launch fast and iterate on feedback.
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@YahooFinance
I feel like this is similar to the Joe Rogan vaccine thing. These two have had a bad history of getting emerging technology calls right, so why should their opinions matter here?
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Bitcoin fees are high right now! We will see more of this throughout the next bull run. Lightning is the solution and you want to start working on it NOW. The prepared will reap the most benefit.
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ICYMI: We did a big release yesterday. This has been months of work as we completely redid our authentication system, rebuilt our web app, moved our platform from user ownership to team ownership, replaced entire billing stack and more. So proud of our team! Lots more to come...
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1/ Every day this week I made a post covering some interesting market opportunities inside of
#LightningNetwork
. The broad markets covered were Infrastructure, Liquidity, Compliance, Security, and Metrics. I tried to illustrate that there’s still so much opportunity in Lightning
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Really excited to be working with
@gladstein
and the
@HRF
team to support NGOs across the world.
Accepting Bitcoin and Lightning donations in a self-custodial way can be challenging for non-profits
That's why
@HRF
is excited to announce a partnership with
@voltage_cloud
to provide infrastructure support and liquidity for NGOs adopting
@BtcpayServer
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1/ Day 2 of my Lightning Market threads. Today we’re going to talk about Liquidity. This has been a hot topic because of how important it is to the Network. The obvious first step in Lightning was to get usable daemons in the wild. The next step is easy liquidity operations…
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People really don’t understand how public LN metrics aren’t an accurate indication of usage or adoption. I’ve had way too many convos this week that don’t get it. I guess I gotta write a new post about it…
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Excited for a week in Miami for
@TheBitcoinConf
. Hit me up if you want to talk
#Lightning
at your business. I’ll be speaking Saturday at 1:20 on the Enterprise Stage. We’re also doing a collab with
@googlecloud
so come hang out!
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I was cleaning out my office yesterday and found a letter from
@Free_Ross
dated August 2015. So sad to think he’s still locked up. We need reform. Stay strong, Ross.
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1/ Today I am sharing my thoughts on how brands and their identity can be established on the Lightning Network. Bitcoin's decentralized network can create a compounding effect of trust. Running a node permits this.
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Absolutely crazy to think it's been a year since I launched Voltage. This time last year, Voltage was a side project and I still had a full time job. Now we're powering some of the biggest companies in
#Bitcoin
. We have an amazing team built and there's so much more to come. 🚀🔥
1 Year Anniversary of
@voltage_cloud
, on the same day as the
#Bitcoin
ATH.
There is so much more to build, and we are just getting started. Thank you for your support and belief in our team!
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My next startup will be a recipe site with no ads and no stories. 100% ingredients and instructions.
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We're hiring for a Sales Account Executive at
@voltage_cloud
! It's going to be a big year so come join in on the fun.
Apply on my X profile with their cool new job service.
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Congrats to the
@lightning
team on this launch. Exciting to see the progress. Mainnet Taproot Assets on
@voltage_cloud
imminent! ⚡️
Announcing the first mainnet release of Taproot Assets 🥕, a protocol for assets on
#bitcoin
and Lightning.
With this release, developers can issue financial assets on-chain in a scalable manner. 💱
Today marks a new era of multi-asset bitcoin. 🌅
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1/ In our Twitter Space yesterday with
@Bitwage
and
@JonChest
it was brought up that
#Bitcoin
and
@lightning
could disrupt the Payday Loans industry. I had never thought about this before but it was pretty eye opening.
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Just funded by Lightning node straight from my bank account without leaving the
@voltage_cloud
dashboard. 👀👀⚡️
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With this release of Lightning Terminal, litd is coming to
@voltage_cloud
! Very soon you'll be able to get all these features and benefits on your Voltage nodes. ⚡️
Announcing the new litd, the all-in-one suite for LND devs! Get LIT with:
🖥️ Improved Terminal web UI
🧮 Tools to simplify liquidity & accounting
🤖 Automated routing fee management
🌐 Accounts: many users, one node
Upgrade your Lightning stack today:
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I’m in LA for
@pacificbitcoin
! Come find me to talk about
#LightningNetwork
. I’ll be starting off at the
@voltage_cloud
hackathon today.
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Want tons of inbound liquidity? Just set your alias to the name of a popular Lightning app/service. Channels start pouring in. 😂
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Excited to finally share this! We've been a little quiet lately while we prepare our platform for Bitcoin's global takeover. Achieving SOC2 Type II demonstrates our commitment to creating the best platform for Bitcoin and Lightning. There's a lot more enhancements coming!
Some exciting news: Voltage has officially achieved SOC2 Type II compliance.
Data Protection & Security Matter.
What you can count on:
✅Enhanced Control: Sleep easier knowing your data is safe.
✅Robust Security: Level up your defense against data breaches.
✅Operational
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Creating a company is hard. Builders need all the help they can get. That's why we're excited to offer credits to those trying to start
#Bitcoin
companies. We can't wait to work with the next wave of Lightning companies.
Today we are announcing our Startup Program, supporting early-stage companies building on
#Bitcoin
and
#LightningNetwork
Kicking off we are partnering with
@PlebLab
and
@draperxBTC
Removing complexity for Founders w/ reliable infrastructure.
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I created a way to run Bash scripts in
@awscloud
#Lambda
using the new Layers capabilities. It was really fun working with the Lambda Runtime API. Layers definitely are a huge step forward for
#serverless
. Check it out!
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I’m talking with
@RyanTheGentry
tomorrow about Stablecoins on Lightning at
@tabconf
. What questions should I ask him?
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I'm looking for a
@golang
Developer to join
@getvoltage
to work on the
@lightning
stack (LND, Pool, Loop, LiT) and some internal tools. Great opportunity to contribute to open source Lightning development! DMs open and we can
#PayYouInBitcoin
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EVEN BETTER!
I set up my Voltage NIP 05 today:
graham
@vlt
.ge
This is a NIP05 ID with Zap support and Lightning Address. All to my own node. ⚡️🔥
Trying to be more active on Nostr:
npub1txp36dw5whexeqrve9srausszfcq73v8f3x07tzzy7g7g3mrw04s8uxacz
It’s hard because I’ve never been that active on Twitter 😅
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Very excited to be the Keynote sponsor of this. Going to be the best Lightning event of the year!
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Very excited to be partnering with
@googlecloud
. This is key to unlocking the next phase of enterprise adoption of Lightning and scaling
#Bitcoin
to the world.
We are proud to partner with
@googlecloud
to expand our hosting and locations.
You can now deploy Lightning workloads globally.
Initial operations will be in Iowa, Netherlands, and Singapore.
Read more:
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This is a perfect example of AI and Lightning coming together and powered by
@voltage_cloud
. I have a feeling we’re going to see a lot more of this 👀
Make your own QR code art using
#AI
, pay with
#bitcoin
#Lightning
Built with my friend
@LightningK0ala
using
@voltage_cloud
Works great for links, LNURLs, business cards, etc.
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1/ Day 5 of my
#LightningNetwork
Market threads. We’ll close this out with a fun one, Metrics! The amount of data inside of the Lightning Network is incredible. Every node has two categories of data and this data is very helpful for operations and decision making.
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@APompliano
@saylor
@Snowden
We’re making this a reality at
@voltage_cloud
. Any company that wants to plug Bitcoin into their products hit us up. We can make it happen.
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We're secretly a merch company.
of all the swag pens from
#bitcoin
companies, I like the
@voltage_cloud
one the best, great ink, compact but sturdy, 10/10 would recommend
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Sneak peak of some of the awesome merch we’ll have at
@TheBitcoinConf
. This one glows in the dark!
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This is why I started
@voltage_cloud
. The Bitcoin Stack takes infrastructure and we need it to be easy, scalable, and secure. This new internet is being built for the people and by the people. Everyone needs to watch this presentation.
The Bitcoin Stack is being built out, and the potential for tectonic shifts in how we interact with the Internet give me goosebumps.
We are building a stack of distributed systems that, if successful, will lead to truly unstoppable applications.
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Looking forward to this! Excited to speak for the 4th year in a row.
NEW SPEAKER ALERT:
Please welcome
@gkrizek
, Founder and CEO at
@voltage_cloud
, to the official Bitcoin 2024 lineup! 🙌
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1/ Day 4 of my
#LightningNetwork
Market threads. Let’s talk about security. The importance of security in a Lightning context should be pretty obvious. Not only is it important, it’s also pretty difficult. Given the uniqueness of Lightning, it presents new security challenges.
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Catching up on work the Friday night way after a great week in Orlando.
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@benthecarman
@walletofsatoshi
We'll have something out soon too to help do Zaps to your own node!
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1/ Day 3 of my
#LightningNetwork
Market threads. This one is probably the least sexy of all. Compliance! I know you’re already thinking this is some fiat crap. While that may partially be the case, there’s still a lot of opportunity here and solutions that can benefit the Network
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aaaaand they’re gone! We’ve filled all our open positions. I’m more bullish on the
@voltage_cloud
team than
#bitcoin
. LFG. Welcome
@dont_grow_weary
@kylemein
@_weirdrobot
@Tee8z
@b0b4456
@LiamCyDennis
@sototallysweet
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Really cool to see this. It's obvious that Lightning and AI is a match made in heaven. Best of all, it's being built on
@voltage_cloud
!
We just released AI 🤝
#Bitcoin
: Building Global Machine-to-Machine Payments with Lightning 🤖⚡️
Watch as
@hmichellerose
teaches you how to build Lightning payments into AI agents with
@LangChainAI
and
@Replit
tooling.
In 2023, the bots pay you!
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Funded my
@stacker_news
account with
@MutinyWallet
through the
@voltage_cloud
LSP. Very exciting times! ⚡️💪🤯
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🚨 Hiring Alert!
@voltage_cloud
has a new job posting for a Sales Account Executive. Come work with us a make a huge impact on Voltage and the Bitcoin ecosystem!
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The longer you're in Bitcoin the more likely you are to have an 'oh shit' moment where you think you've lost your coins. These times suck, but it's when you learn the most about derivation paths, gap limits, recovery windows, etc.
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Amazing to see
@voltage_cloud
at the top of this and the only
#LightningNetwork
company on it.
@GVteam
has been incredible to work with. Excited to continue building to bring
#Bitcoin
to the world.
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4/ This means a node could have zero channels established and still receive a payment.
Similar experiences exist inside of some mobile app ecosystems, but we wanted to bring this to the entire
#LightningNetwork
.
This is a major requirement for global adoption of
#Bitcoin
.
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It's been over 2 years since my last
@TFTC21
appearance. That'll change next week when I sit down with
@MartyBent
. What should we cover?
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We're looking for a talented Frontend Engineer to come build amazing
#Bitcoin
and
#LightningNetwork
experiences with us.
I'll even give $500 in Bitcoin to anyone that refers a successful hire! ⚡️💸
cc
@BitcoinerJobs
@jobsincrypto
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5/ Imagine a
@BtcpayServer
merchant not having to watch their channel balances or ask for inbound capacity.
Think of all the app developers that can go back to creating their app instead of managing liquidity for their users.
All without locking up your own precious Bitcoin.
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Our Flow 2.0 needs some channels! This should be a pretty active node 😉
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It’s been great working with the super talented team at Mutiny for our initial LSP rollout. We’ve got so much more to come! We’re scaling Bitcoin to the world ⚡️🌎
Just published this blog post about how Mutiny collaborates with
@voltage_cloud
to provide our users with better privacy on the Lightning Network, take a look!
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Congrats to the
@MutinyWallet
team today! (
@benthecarman
@futurepaul
Tony). It so awesome to see this out in the wild and we’re excited to continue working together. So much more to build!
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Saying Lightning is for micropayments is so incorrect. Sure, it can definitely do micropayments. It can also facilitate millions of dollars in a single payment. Maybe you need a direct channel for that, but completely possible.
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7/ This LSP is available today on testnet and we are working towards mainnet soon.
You can read all about it at our blog here:
It also includes a 'How it Works' section for those that are curious.
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I'm excited to be referenced in
@LynAldenContact
's new book, Broken Money. The opportunities that exist for Bitcoin are vast and Lyn is an expert at bringing those to light. Can't wait to get my hands on a copy.
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Looking forward to it! See you in Miami....
Announcing founder & CEO of Voltage, Graham Krizek, as a
#Bitcoin2022
speaker!
Prior to Voltage,
@gkrizek
has spent almost a decade working on
#Bitcoin
projects while simultaneously building infrastructure services at companies big and small.
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3/ Flow 2.0 is a noncustodial way to easily receive Lightning payments without thinking about channels.
We utilize zero-conf channels and preimage hashes to allow it to work instantly and ensure payments always get to the recipient.
With increased privacy as well!
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11/ Thank you all and let's make 2023 a huge year for
#Bitcoin
and
#Lightning
. ⚡️Much more to come! ✌️
Props to
@futurepaul
,
@carl_dong
, and Tony for creating this powerful service.
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2/ It’s clear there’s sub-markets forming inside of Lightning that can (and will) be enormous opportunities for the years to come. Every day this week I’ll share a thread on a potential market opportunity and how it applies to the Lightning Network.
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UPDATE YOUR NODES! All LND nodes, regardless of backend and version, need to be upgraded to the latest version. If you're on Voltage that's a 1 click operation. Go do it now
We just added LND 0.15.2 to the Voltage platform. Please update your nodes ASAP as all previously LND versions are considered broken.
Please note that large nodes (lots of channels/transactions can take several minutes to restart)
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@BitcoinErrorLog
Yeah, this was a mistake in automation. Wasn't supposed to be sent. Our bad!
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