Hey Everybody! At Block Rewards we are innovating the next generation of get paid in Bitcoin tools. Before Block Rewards I had a long career in compensation and benefits, so now I'm obsessed with getting everyone paid in sats. I'm a hobbyist author on the side and wrote The Dao of Bitcoin in 2024, working on my second book now.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 1h
Block Rewards have included in the services plan for companies, 1-2 training sessions, on site, for bitcoin noobs of the company ?
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 1h
we do offer live training sessions but online, we'd love to get to a place where the education is always happening on site but for now it's just not practical
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 1h
OK understood.
If it helps, I wrote several guide about bitcoin and lightning. Feel free to use them as educational material. Are also translated in 8 languages.
https://darth-coin.github.io
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 1h
amazing, thank you!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 1h
I haven't read the Dao of Bitcoin, but I have a soft spot for the Dao de jing, what caught you about Daoism?
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @LanternBitcoin OP 1h
I was given a basketball book called Tao of the Jumpshot when I was younger. Later I spent a year living in China in my 20s and since then it's been an ongoing part of my life
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 1h
I spent some time in China in my late teens. Coincided with my discovery of zhaungzi and the dao. It's true that it kind of sticks with you.
I was living in the South (Kunming), but traveled around a bit. Would love to go back. Have you been back recently?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 2h
What KYC information (if any) is needed to use your service?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
it's full kyc because of the nature of 1) the customer is the employer so there is some FINTRAC requirements there and 2) because it's custodial the custodian has a relationship with the employee as well
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @benwehrman 2h
Do you think we're being lied to about anything in the world?
Just like, in general
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
hahahaha just about everything
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 1h
I agree, except Bitcoin.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 1h
Bitcoin is a truth machine!
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 2h
Is Block rewards focused only on companies to use these services for their employees? I mean only companies can join? What about a freelancer?
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
our primary focus is on employers at this time
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 2h
OK so the employee could receive every cycle into their own BTC wallet, be onchain or LN, it means the BTC are not kept in Block reward custody or employer custody, right ?
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
Our product is custodial, through a qualified third party custodian. On-chain. Withdrawal to self-custody is simple and there are no charges beyond the tx fee. We are really building products we want entire employee groups to be able to use, not just bitcoiners, so we've gone this route for maximum inclusion
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 2h
Yeah is ok to start with some level of custody for new users that are still not prepared yet for a full withdrawal into self-custody. I suppose you will train them with more material.
Self-custody is a serious thing and not all newbies are ready for that step from day 1.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
absolutely - education is a core part of how we roll out our service
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 2h
Is Block Rewards available only for Canada?
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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
right now yes, but we are working hard on US launch, hopefully Q2
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 2h
What about Australia / NZ ?
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
little further down our roadmap
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 2h
It's a good start, I like the idea of companies doing this for their employees.
Something like that did Bitwage when they started in 2015.
I will recommend it to some friends I have in Canada.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
thanks! we're so early with earning Bitcoin. It's a critical use-case IMO. Helps drive circular economy and mass adoption.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 1h
That's pretty exciting!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 1h
I think so!
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @benwehrman 2h
What are your thoughts on gnosticism?
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
I think there are a great deal of truth in ancient wisdom which we have kind of lost to myth over time. The Western world transitioned to a crazy position of absolute knowledge with thinkers like Newton, Decartes, etc we made science a religion and in doing so lost access to a lot of real knowledge
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @beyond_turbulence 1h
What do you think of Sufi mentorship?
My internal reading of history agrees. We didn't just advance; we performed a global system migration with a catastrophic data | code loss.
The ancient world's wisdom wasn't mere mythology; it was a specific, experiential protocol for navigating reality—a different procedure for the desalination plant of consciousness.
Knowledge trusted internal intuition and symbolic language as valid data | code spaces, structures and/or streams.
Then came the Newtonian-Cartesian upgrade!
We replaced the manifold with a rigid, external pipeline of pure reason for immediate needs. We made science a new orthodox procedure, dismissing any input that couldn't be measured as "slop."
Slop? #1258264
In doing so, we didn't just filter out noise; we shut down a primary intake valve. We gained and went towards notions of motion with respect to unparalleled control over matter, but lost the options-based, holistic understanding that saw knowledge as a living ecosystem, not a linear output. We traded the ocean for the blueprint of a single, gleaming pipe.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 1h
Thanks for the questions everyone!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @benwehrman 2h
You know my taste - which episodes of the Block Reward Podcast do you think I most need to listen to? I haven't had the chance to dig into it yet, but I need to!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LanternBitcoin OP 2h
TBR might not be the pod for you Ben! But a few favorite guests of mine were Tony Yazbeck from The Bitcoin Way and Mike Dunworth has come on the show a few times. He's one of my favorite listens.
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