Host of Built on Bitcoin & BitcoinYield podcasts (@builtonbtcpod / @bitcoin_yield) Working daily to unlock Bitcoin Capital Markets at @bitflow
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Cluely is a marketing company that raised big money as an AI company.
BIG flop incoming.
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Bro where did all these @Coredao_Org people come from???
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Operation DOG Domination to give the middle 🖕to the CEX duopoly is super dope.
I’m here for it. $DOG 🤝 @LeonidasNFT
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One area to watch: sBTC.
Stacks has the largest suite of apps ready to use BTC of any blockchain. When it goes live, you'll see a lot of swap pages like this.
@HermeticaFi is just one example. A place to earn yield on your BTC through a covered call strategy.
Never been a better time to build on Bitcoin.
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While everyones talking about Runes.
RGB has a working wallet that supports on-chain & Lightning BTC, and an NFT marketplace launching in November. 👀🔥
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Transactions on @Liquid_BTC are picking up again thanks to a SUPER clever new wallet with Lightning integration.
Today @AquaBitcoin launched their mobile wallet on iOS and Android. Another Bitcoin wallet? Really?
That was my first thought too.
The big innovation is around this tab below titled "Layer 2 Bitcoin"
This is an abstracted account that can effortlessly handle both Liquid and Lightning payments.
The big unlock here is powered by @Boltzhq on the backend.
Everything in this Layer 2 account lives on Liquid as L-BTC.
Want to receive Lightning sats? Send an invoice. The Lightning sats are received and auto-converted to L-BTC.
Sending a Lightning payment? Scan a QR code or paste an invoice and once again, Boltz will auto-convert from L-BTC to Lightning and send sats to the destination.
Boltz acts as a swap and Lightning service provider in the background of the wallet. All non-custodial through atomic swaps.
The benefits of having these on Liquid:
✅ Confidential transactions (+1 privacy)
✅ Low fees (Don't have to hit mainchain)
✅ 1-minute block times
✅ Liquidity limits much higher between user and Boltz
This is a REALLY clean user experience.
There also might be a huge design space for L2s with BTC on the chain to solve many of the issues with Lightning.
Essentially acting as a middleware layer.
Great job @AquaBitcoin and @Boltzhq 👏
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I got married over the weekend. ❤️
'Twas a beautiful day all around.
Also, rejoined the doughjo.
To many more blessings 🥂
This Ninja just paid for my wedding 🙌🥲
Bittersweet to paperhand while @TO and the @ninjalerts team are crushing it rn but real-life stressors come first.
Thankful for Ordinals.
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This. is. the. endgame. for. @Stacks.
Something the community has been focused on for years.
Making Stacks an abstracted smart contract layer.
Being able to use @ALEXLabBTC with any token in your wallet to pay gas is a massive UX upgrade.
Great job yall 👏
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$sBTC entering the FOMO phase.
Last 80 BTC will be filled today to hit the 1k cap.
$100m of capital flowing into a Bitcoin L2 in 3 days is pretty wild.
Bullish on BitFi.
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I just swapped BTC on Ark to USDC in my Phantom wallet in 30 seconds.
No KYC. 0.5% Fee.
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So I’ve spent 30 minutes researching @ocean_mining and I’m convinced none of you have done even that 👀
Ocean looks like a great attempt to increase decentralization and censorship resistance in mining.
Reasons why:
- KYC free (you only need to provide your BTC address and point hash rate to pool)
- Non custodial (You are paid from the Coinbase reward in the block template)
- 0% fee to start
- 2% fee eventually, goes down to 1% if you construct your own block template (This is crucial 👇)
To see the mempool, you need to run a node. This incentive adds one more node to the network and the miner gets a 1% fee deduction AND can create their own block template.
If their hash rate finds a block, their block template is appended to the chain.
This allows thousands of smaller miners to offer their view of a “good” block construction. It also puts pressure on out-of-band fees because Ocean as a pool can’t guarantee space in a block.
This becomes a potential flywheel as hash rate increases.
Note: This isn’t live today but is top of the roadmap.
The block template you see on the website is a blip at launch. Giacomo, Luke, Jack, or anyone else at Ocean won’t control any of that if they deliver on local incentivized block construction.
The Ordinals crew are looking as dogmatic as the laser eyes they love to roast. 🤷♂️
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This Ninja just paid for my wedding 🙌🥲
Bittersweet to paperhand while @TO and the @ninjalerts team are crushing it rn but real-life stressors come first.
Thankful for Ordinals.
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Learning to develop on Bitcoin is the best 80/20 ratio for your effort in 2023. (especially if you're new to coding)
Why?
- Most engineers learn higher-level languages and don't know lower-level stuff intimately.
- There's a severe shortage of Bitcoin developers
- Money is only just starting to flow into the ecosystem
Added together means if you dedicate yourself to learning the Bitcoin stack, you can be part of the small group that actually understands this stuff.
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.@stacks now has two more solid financial building blocks live on Mainnet.
@bitflow (Curve on ETH)
@StackingDao (Lido on ETH)
There's also a version of Aave launching in the new year.
Stacks is primed to have a massive 2024 🔥
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Very odd take.
Experience is the best teacher.
Immersive storytelling in VR seems like a much better way to learn than reading accounts in a book.
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This will be one of the most interesting chart to watch over the next 12 months.
Those slices are going to move around ALOT.
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First Op-ed in @BitcoinMagazine just went live 🔥
25 years ago, @NickSzabo4 wrote a seminal paper on the hidden friction of micropayments.
I touch on what is still true today (a lot) and where we have the tools to finally break through. ⤵️
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The amount of talent in the @Stacks community is bonkers.
It's kinda unfair.
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Excited to announce our latest investment in @ord_io (and one of the first rounds @BTCFrontierFund has co-led)
Amazing founders with @LeonidasNFT @zachmeyer_ and the team!
I’m excited to announce that my company @ord_io just raised a $2M pre-seed round to spearhead our expansion into Runes!
Co-led by @BTCFrontierFund and @soraventures
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Check this out.
You can link a Lightning Address to your .btc BNS domain name and accept Lightning payments in a dead simple way.
BNS is the hub that connects the #bitcoin ecosystem.
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Holy moly Stacks is unusable.
Mempool full of transactions and:
- Average blocks are 10x-20x less full than Bitcoin blocks
- No ability to estimate a fee that will get you included in a block in any timeframe.
Disappointing amount of progress in 2 years since the first massive chain congestion event.
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Lil announcement. I've decided to spend the next 12 months learning Bitcoin Script, with a sub-focus on off-chain scaling solutions.
If you want to follow my journey or even learn together.
I've set up a Skool community for anyone interested in Script. You can join below👇
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BREAKING: Some of the first video previews of @consoledao in the digital flesh.
Console is Discord for Web3.
In this preview we see decentralized verified identities (or DiD's)
.BTC verified identities = less spam and scams
Coming soon, first, with the @CrashPunks community.
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Something tells me BTC-backed lending is gonna be everywhere faster than we think.
I’m so here for it.
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I started with 19 Pizza Pets.
I killed them all with DMT.
(Yolo’d 6 adults)
Still buying more.
Shit is cool.
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Another chat with the gang talking #bitcoin.
We discuss:
- Twitscriptions 😂
- Gifting BTC for Christmas
- The Spam Debate
- Runes
- The Next Bitcoin Upgrade in 2024
🎙️ @cbspears, @BobBodily, @itsdonnyok
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Is this the first Runes DEX?
We were tired of hearing “Runes are the next big thing” with nothing to show for
The next big thing is finally here.
Introducing: Fluid DEX, the 1st Decentralized Exchange on Bitcoin.
👉 btc.fluidtokens.com/swap
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Not another Bitcoin podcast!
Don’t worry, this is just 4 Bitcoiners hanging out.
We discuss:
- Censorship (and resistance)
- MEV on Bitcoin
- Ocean Mining Launch
- Black Sats Pull Request (aka the harbinger sat)
🎙️@cbspears, @bobbodily, @itsdonnyok and myself.
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Pulse Check: Biggest DeFi platforms on #Bitcoin
Revisiting this over a year later.
1) @SovrynBTC ($108m TVL) Still the king
2) @ALEXLabBTC ($100m TVL) Massive gainer
3) @moneyonchainok ($77m TVL) I missed this last time
4) @ArkadikoFinance ($10m TVL)
5) @bitflow ($10m TVL) New entrant
Note: These can have significant TVL in altcoins.
Also, Lightning/Taproot Assets/BRC20s can have high swap volume not represented as TVL due to how the network is constructed.
(@NostrAssets and @unisat_wallet are notable here)
The 5 largest DeFi applications on Bitcoin are on @Stacks & @rootstock_io currently.
Will be interesting to review in a year.
Pulse Check: The biggest DeFi platforms on #bitcoin.
1) @SovrynBTC (45m TVL)
2) @ALEXLabBTC (8.7m TVL)
3) @Stackswap_BTC (4m TVL)
Not including Bisq and other type exchanges.
Will be interesting to see how these numbers and positions play out over the next few years. 🙌
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River is the best example today of an ideological Bitcoin company, without the maxi mind virus.
Just creating incredibly useful tools for clients that push society towards a Bitcoin standard.
Introducing 3.8% Interest on Cash—Paid in Bitcoin!
Stop letting your cash lose value to inflation, even in “high-yield” accounts.
Unlock the predictability of dollars with the opportunity to build real wealth in Bitcoin. Only on River.
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I humbly present to you the best place to get started as a new Bitcoin developer.
1: Bitcoin Developer Basics 01: Transactions, Scripts + SegWit udemy.com/course/base58-bitc…
2: Use in tandem with @bitscriptapp for deeper learnings.
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Yesterday was my final day at @BTCFrontierFund after 3 incredible years. Grateful for the opportunities, friendships, and skills I’ve gained.
What’s next? 😉
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Is this what scientists and experts tell themselves? Pretty good way to keep yourself protected in an ivory tower.
If you want the public to continue to trust experts and the science they expose, You're going to have to engage in ALOT more open discussions.
Evidence and rhetoric go hand in hand if the evidence is compelling. Go out and make your case. The general public is not being served in any way by passive takes like these.
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Crazy to see the evolution of on-chain art within a year.
When you click the "Content" link on @ord_io or Ordinals.com, you see the art that's actually living on chain.
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Episode 83 with Paul Sztorc (@Truthcoin) is LIVE!
We discuss:
-What is BIP300?
-Biggest blockers to move it forward
-The current state of #BItcoin
-How to get more people into Bitcoin
and much more
Tune-in now 👇
builtonbitcoin.xyz/83
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Today I leave for 2 weeks to Italy for my honeymoon. Touching grass.
When I get back, yall better have this 🗑️ bear market energy done with.
Bull market vibes only. 🔥
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Ummmmm. Wow. 😳
You guys are amazing!
Thanks for the insane support 😀
Happy to announce I’ll be joining @StacksStartups part-time as a Jr. Analyst.
While continuing to build out @CityCoiner and Built on Bitcoin.
Hyped for the future of @Stacks!
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If you’ve been following the @BTC_OS x Cardano hype and wanna learn more.
My convo with @EdanYago has alpha on how these ZK-powered bridges work.
Full interview here on X with timestamps.
[0:00] Intro
[3:10] Bitcoin Halving
[5:30] Taproot driving innovation
[12:20] Sovryn multi-chain
[14:44] BitSNARK, Grail Overview
[32:20] Bitcoin Accelerationism
[39:30] Wen?
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NFTs on @Stacks have gone absolutely crazy.
Let’s check in on what these teams have been busy.
Join me &
@indigonft_stx
@crashpunks
@punksarmynft
@cryptosodaclub
@btcmonkeys
@stacksdegens
@bitcoinbadgers
For a progress report.
nitter.app/i/spaces/1yoKMWYgRWDJQ
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If you're lucky enough to wake up every day with Bitcoin on your mind, work on Bitcoin projects, or engage with Bitcoin in any way—you're blessed.
Gm #Bitcoin fam! ☕️
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It’s great to be working at the biggest DEX on @Stacks at this crucial moment for the protocol and network.
We’re going so much higher 👏
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This. is. the. endgame. for. @Stacks.
Something the community has been focused on for years.
Making Stacks an abstracted smart contract layer.
Being able to use @ALEXLabBTC with any token in your wallet to pay gas is a massive UX upgrade.
Great job yall 👏
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Now feels like the time to responsibly quit your job and go all-in building something on @Stacks.
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I got into @Stacks to learn Clarity and become a developer.
Somehow I started a media company instead.
😂
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Someone just texted me BTC and it opened to a self-custodial off-chain wallet 👀
UX is almost there for normies.
SEND. IT. HIGHER.
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🚨 E159: Unlocking the Power of UTXO Lending & Staking with FluidTokens w/ co-founders Matteo & Raul
We Discuss:
- The 1st Runes Staking
- True DeFi on the L1
- Bitcoin OS x Cardano
- Building with UTXOs & Why It's Unique
+ much more
Listen/Watch Below 👇🔥
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Crypto founders:
Your first job is to build a product people love to use,
your second job is to not launch a token that will fuck that up.
Be diligent even though the market wants to rush you.
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I think @ALEXLabBTC has reached Max-Q of pain in market sentiment. Leaning into everyone's fear and rotating into some ALEX.
- Still super bullish on team
- Still a $1b project this bull run IMO (current mcap is a steal)
- This mistake is a powerful incentive to harden all internal processes
- Have the most tech built in the ecosystem
- Stacks has had many black eyes the last few months. Suppressing adoption.
- Nakamoto and sBTC are still to come.
NFA. I rarely trade. Pure instinct here but bullish.
Feel for all those down bad.
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People want open networks.
Full interview with @muneeb dropping tomorrow.
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More than 50% of the transactions in a recent Bitcoin block were Counterparty TX's. 👀
I keep trying to tell you...
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Congrats to the @Stacks core devs and community for pulling off a seamless hard fork.
Nakamoto is here. 🔥
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I'm not a Solana or ETH hater.
I just think long term all roads lead back to Bitcoin.
Simple thesis really.
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Been in the @stacks ecosystem since May’ 2021.
Haven’t felt this much energy since Arkadiko, STXNFT (now Gamma), and CityCoins all launched in a few month period at the end of 2021.
This still feels like the warmup.
Nakamoto release and sBTC are the true unlocks.
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A new Bitcoin bridge enters the chat
This is a very interesting new release of @XLinkbtc from the @ALEXLabBTC team! 👏
I was able to bridge from mainchain to @Stacks and provide liquidity in a pool with 2 transactions. (1 moderate fee on Bitcoin and a fraction of a penny on Stacks)
A few notes that stand out:
- The bridge doesn't appear to use validators like a traditional bridge. Because Stacks nodes and smart contracts can read Bitcoin state. The smart contract is watching and listening to transactions and confirmations on the Bitcoin side before "minting" aBTC on the Stacks side. (Read: Very cool and can't be done anywhere else)
- Stacks has a decently robust library of applications including DeFi, NFTS, Games, Identity Systems, etc.
- aBTC is an interesting development. Unclear how it'll be used by the ecosystem. At minimum, You can play with the tech and see how sBTC can be used as they are the same token at the protocol level.
Very excited for the future of using Bitcoin in new ways easily.
This bodes well with my cross-chain thesis.
nitter.app/JakeBlockchain/status/…
The future is not cross-chain. (Not in the way you've been told)
There's been a narrative over the last year and a half that the future is cross-chain. The idea is highly liquid crypto assets like BTC, and ETH will freely flow across bridges to all relevant ecosystems and be used in the best applications.
I see no evidence this will be the case.
The reason why is a classic cold start problem.
Users first want applications before they consider bridging to a new chain.
Developers want to see liquidity and users before they support a new token.
(It's the same problem today with Bitcoin merchant adoption and customers)
Someone has to go first.
The cross-chain thesis that might play out is within ecosystems.
BTC the asset will freely flow between Bitcoin "L2s" because both sides of the market believe in the asset.
The question for them is more about trust assumptions of the underlying chain and what useful applications exist on it.
All BTC chains right now are fighting for adoption on this front.
If you're building an app to make BTC useful on Solana, Ethereum, or something else outside of the accepted Bitcoin ecosystem.
You should probably pivot and move to a chain with closer gravity to the L1.
Hopefully, this is helpful to someone.
*** Couple other data points to support my claim***
wBTC is frequently cited as an indicator of BTC's cross-chain potential. Despite its high TVL, few applications support wBTC and a relatively low TVL in DeFi pools. Additionally, there's no straightforward method for users to convert native BTC into wBTC directly. This situation suggests that ETH holders are likely using wBTC to gain exposure to BTC by exchanging ETH for BTC and holding onto it (not deploying it).
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There isn't a Bitcoin newsletter i'm excited to open everytime it hits my inbox. So I'm creating it.
First edition drops tomorrow.
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Woah. Stacks DeFi protocols are heating up. 🔥
@VelarBTC and @ALEXLabBTC both got integrated into @xverse in-app swaps feature. Boosting DAUs.
@bitflow isn't integrated yet but their big boy token aggregator is attracting people (my default option)
Pre-Nakamoto.
Pre-sBTC.
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This isn’t a regular BTC buy.
Another @lava_xyz update.
I’m shilling because I’m genuinely impressed.
What happened here is I sent money from my @mercury Personal account to a specific ACH address created by Lava.
Anything received to that ACH address directly convert into Bitcoin and is dropped into your self-custodial wallet.
Meaning you can direct a portion of your paycheck to go directly into Bitcoin.
From there you can:
- Spend it
- Borrow against it
- Convert back to fiat and withdraw to bank
This is on track to be my daily driver for everything that isn’t Lightning, Ordinals, Runes related.
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We've had an incredible year of investing at @BTCFrontierFund
- @LunarCrush (Actionable analytics)
- @TaprootWizards (Catventures in Bipland)
- @ordinalsbot (Leading inscription provider)
- @LiquidiumFi (Ordinals lending)
- @deeplakefi (DLCs made easier)
- @bitflow (Stable swap DEX)
- @NeoSwap_ai (AI-powered payments)
JUST TO NAME A FEW.
Major love to the entire BFF team and our entire portfolio of founders.
Cohort 4 has officially started yesterday.
LFG 🔥
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Bitcoin L2s with a token are guilty until proven innocent.
This is the safest way to proceed in landscape with high grift potential.
Stacks is the only exception currently IMO. Building for years, long term value aligned roadmap.
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5 biggest BTC trends i'm watching in 2025.
- AI agents deploying BTC
- Micropayments
- Much better native BTC bridges
- Lending as a broad category
- No more copy and pasting ugly wallet addresses
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If someone from @rootstock_io, @build_on_bob, @Blockstream Liquid, @BitlayerLabs, & @Coredao_Org can reach out.
I would love to get this information for each chain live on mainnet and start to compare Bitcoin-focused DeFi at a high level.
A look at DeFi project usage on @Stacks.
This is the total transactions for each project last month (June 2024).
ALT Stacks DeFi monthly chart
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🚨 sBTC; the new 1:1 Bitcoin-backed token on @Stacks is coming to change the game and @BTCFrontierFund is the best place for those ready to unlock BTC use-cases with it!
You know what to do! 🔥
We’re thrilled to announce the next partner for sBTC: leading Bitcoin accelerator & fund, Bitcoin Frontier Fund 🟧
@BTCFrontierFund: a Bitcoin-focused VC investor since its inception in 2021 with 70+ investments to date, announces plans to invest in teams building with sBTC. 1/3
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@FluidtokensXBT - Permissionless lending, borrowing, and trading of Runes.
Co-founded by @elraulito, @0xMetamatt, and team from the Cardano ecosystem.
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Just earned sBTC on my small stack of @billydollarcat LP’d on @bitflow.
Triple-digit yield.
Think that makes me at least 100% less of a Runetard than the rest of you stuck lonely on L1.
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To all the @Stacks fam who couldn't make it to #BitcoinUnleashed this year.
I better see your ass next year.
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For those not deep in the sphere.
Two memecoins on Stacks are fighting for whose “first” and it’s as stupid as it sounds.
Bull run loading…. 🚀
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What do you get when you combine #Bitcoin, a DeFi project and a group of AI researchers?
@Stackswap_BTC ✅
Built on @Stacks
Had the pleasure of talking with @lucidsungmin to hear his vision for the future of finance.
Listen to the latest episode 👇👇
builtonbitcoin.xyz/45
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Excited to jump in the trenches with @dylan_ and @DiegoMey with the @bitflow team to build Bitcoin DeFi and capital markets where it belongs.
Inside the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Came a long way from the 13 years I spent in the grocery biz.
Still, this feels like day 1 in Bitcoin with everything ahead of us.
Honored to build but it’s time to work 🫡
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Sometimes this industry is embarrassing.
Sometimes it rocks.
Today my friend @JakeBlockchain, a former grocery bagging legend turned VC, is now rocking a new affiliate badge w/ @bitflow
He spent years interviewing builders and sourcing deals across the Bitcoin eco.
Excited to see him apply everything he’s learned in this new role as a Strategic Operations Lead
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Want to work at a Bitcoin VC Fund?
We might be hiring an employee or two.
You are:
- Bitcoin native and understand the ecosystem
- People person
- Hungry
- Background in tokenomics, finance, or investing.*
(Not a dealbreaker)
The rest we can train.
Would love to hire someone from the community.
DM me, lets chat.
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It’s May 26th. Which means,
1) It’s my birthday.
2) I’ve officially been in Stacks a year.
Both are reasons to celebrate!
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