Part of the allure of the lightning network is the low barrier to entry. Do you have a raspberry pi and some bitcoin? You can run a lightning node. Can you code? You can run a lightning startup. Most of the lightning companies you’ve heard of today, ours included, started with a few technical [...]

The bitcoin lightning network gives people a new way to interact and organize. For the first time, real money and free speech can be sent instantly around the world for near zero cost. This will unlock a better version of things we use today and inspire completely new use cases that we can’t imagine at [...]

Imagine a bar where the beer is free. All of your friends are there, but every few minutes the host interrupts the conversation and tries to sell you something. If someone tells the wrong joke or says a banned word, the bouncer throws them out. How long does the list of banned words have to [...]