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Cus @DarthCoin doesn't have a podcast
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The key is to keep it simple, and small. Less is more. Minimalism goes a long way. You need a lot less than you think.
You use LNbits and an NTAG 424 DNA tag, along with the Boltcard extension within LNbits. Once everything is set up, you can make payments using the tag. I created my own card this way and use it regularly to make Lightning payments.
Been heads-down building a Lightning-powered fintech platform bridging Switzerland and Brazil (with an eye on expanding to Colombia next).
The core idea: let people move value across borders without the usual banking friction. A few pieces live under one roof:
- CHF → BRL transfers, settled fast, no bank bureaucracy
- A physical Lightning card (Boltcard): you top it up with fiat (card, TWINT, Pix, whatever's local), it converts to sats at that moment, and from then on the balance is pure BTC. Spending is sats-to-sats over Lightning, never converts back to fiat.
- Sats → Pix, so anyone holding Bitcoin can pay a Pix key directly, LN in, fiat out on the recipient's side, in seconds
- Crypto swap between many pairs, non-custodial, funds go straight to whatever wallet the user chooses
- Running my own LNbits + Phoenixd node stack for the Lightning side
Solo-building this, with an AI pair-programmer doing a lot of the implementation grunt work.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
-Sun Tzu
I'm sure there are other good quotes.
It looks like Amboss is shilling Arkade. This implementation is so divergant from the original vision that it barely resembles Ark. It has abandoned privacy and is colaborating with the Swiss government.
The second.tech Ark implementation is a better choice. It more closely resembles the original spec, and has an API that's easy to integrage into apps, wallets, nostr clients etc.
https://second.tech/
Noah wallet for iOS / Android is a good example. Feels like a lightning wallet, but Ark under the hood.
https://alpha.noahwallet.io/
Hopefully there'll be a couple more implementations that run even closer to the original vision.
I would suggest a mix of Blitz wallet and Phoenix, Blitz also support Spark which is compatible with Lightning as well and Phoenix can handle both Lightning and native BTC
(I'm the OP) Good products don't need marketing, they don't need a 'sales department' and they don't need memes. Really good products sell themselves and the disconnect between what Bitcoin is today and what it could be is very large.
All the "events" and all the "influencers" all the "educators" failed to check the entropy on an "airgapped" device and users paid a heavy price. The whole thing could be so much better and it looks like a BIG LARP.
Bitcoin has to compete on its merits and if it were the users would be showing up... they aren't.
I'm not even sure I would recommend Bitcoin today for people needing financial freedom and sound money people talk the talk but we have lost focus on the fundamentals. It's apparent to anyone being objective.
You can also try nadanada.me. Half the price and gives you a 5% discount on Lightning payments.