azte.co is another place to stack ethical Bitcoin (i.e., Bitcoin that you acquired without having to divulge personal information).

Its terminal is a PoS device with an Android device inside it, so it can double as your Samourai Wallet if you're not otherwise an Android user!

(A belated) welcome @andy!

It was great to interview you last year. That was essentially a year ago now. Glad to see the project continuing to make progress!

And here we go

My Lord that's beautiful

"What you need to realize is that when you spend bitcoin, any capital gains are applied only to the gain, not to the total amount, and since the tax rate is under 100%, you actually end up with more bitcoin when you hold fewer dollars."

Few.

they needed to show positive cashflow in Q2.

so they liquidated close to $1b in Bitcoin.

I'm with you on that statement.

ain't that the truth on all three fronts.

was reading Alyse Killeen's thread that what Bitcoin they did sell was at profit, however. so good for them!

not sure that was inflation-adjusted profit, but we will never know because it's next to impossible to calculate the inflation rate at the moment.

"As of the end of Q2, we have converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency."

Tesla didn't HODL. Or deploy as liquidity on Lightning to earn yield.

Some just have to learn the hard way 🤷‍♂️

That's a good point on the signer.

I believe what I've heard Graham and Nate from Voltage both say, and what is listed in one of their blogs Nate wrote, is that they are a "non-custodial, but not trustless" service.

Ultimately, we serve over 14,000 organizations worldwide with a native mobile app on Apple, Android, and in some cases tvOS and Roku. It'd be great to turn on a Lightning interface in our ~100 million apps currently installed on peoples' phones around the world. So they could not only donate Bitcoin to the orgs whose apps they've downloaded, but be interoperable with any other Bitcoin + Lightning wallets for p2p.

On the non-custodial side, it'd just be nice to do this in the spirit of Bitcoin's original ethos. But we would also have to balance the need for nonprofits to issue tax docs for deductions from the donations if their jurisdiction allows for that. As well as their need for liquidity.

I'm probably late here, but I work for a company that accepts donations for non-profits on the legacy payment rails (credit/debit + ACH).

How likely is it that Sensei would be a fit for my organization to be able to allow our partner orgs to run their own nodes to accept Bitcoin donations over Lightning, and giving us some level of insight into each of them, while actually remaining non-custodial from our end?

If they'd been paying attention over the last 12 years, they'd realize not only is Bitcoin better than money, but ⚡️ makes it doubly better than money! :)

Huge congrats @k00b!

Well-deserved, and this will be a great stepping-stone in your and SN's journey.