Curious how bitcoiners spend their days or if anyone has any projects they’re tinkering with on the weekends. I get a lot of Twitter DMs from people building on Bitcoin. What are you up to?
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4 sats \ 5 replies \ @Ras 31 Aug 2021
I'm studying lightning and working on Coinward Labs, a product studio focused on censorship-resistant projects. My hope is to develop lasting tools that make it easy for anyone to use bitcoin for basic finance.
A few underway at different stages:
Swym, mobile app with weekly prizes awarded for saving Bitcoin https://www.Swympools.org, https://github.com/Swym-Pools/Swym_App
BTCtutors, a web community for studying Bitcoin https://www.BTCtutors.com
SatsMutual, insurance and estate planning for bitcoiners inspired by mutual company model
BTCRefi, newest project is looking at making it easier to use BTC as collateral to refinance debt at a better rate (working on mvp that uses unchained capital)
Startups are cool
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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 31 Aug 2021
You're busy!
Swym looks fun. Do you custodian the funds? Is there a business model? It's not clear on the site.
Love the insurance/estate/debt refinancing plays with Bitcoin. I assume a lot of big companies in Bitcoin will come from this direction.
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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @Ras 31 Aug 2021
The prizes for Swym come from the sats forwarded to lending partners, which are all custodial models that offer lending and interest accounts like blockfi, celsius, etc. I'm hopeful that offchain breakthroughs present more censorship-resistant options going forward because blockfi aint it! lend.hodlhodl.com seems promising, some others using liquid, and atomic.loans offering non-custodial yield with dlc's paint me optimistic.
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 31 Aug 2021
I see so on the backend Swym is depositing the funds into Blockfi, etc, and loaning the funds out and returning the yield to users in the form of rewards?
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Ras 31 Aug 2021
Yeah thats a good summary, inspired by uk premium bonds / prize-linked savings
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 31 Aug 2021
Very cool. I love the ingenuity - it's a kind of a UX arbitrage.
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3 sats \ 1 reply \ @bowtiedchukar 31 Aug 2021 freebie
I’m working on writing up guides on BTCPay Server and Podcasting 2.0 at https://bowtiedchukar.com/
2 sats \ 1 reply \ @b13r 1 Sep 2021 freebie
Bitcoin modules for Java plebs: https://github.com/theborakompanioni/bitcoin-spring-boot-starter
also, out-of-the-box lnurl-auth integration (example): https://github.com/theborakompanioni/bitcoin-spring-boot-starter/tree/devel/incubator/spring-lnurl
If Java devs reading this: any input appreciated and highly welcome.