230 sats \ 3 replies \ @timechain 29 Oct 2022 \ on: Bitkit | Your Ultimate Bitcoin Toolkit bitcoin
Yep, just saw this, it looks huge.
"Bitkit is Lightning-compatible and leverages Synonym’s Slashtags protocol. Slashtags is a system that uses Bitcoin cryptographic seeds to create portable web profiles (that can be used across multiple platforms), automatically updated contacts, contact payment preferences and authentication without a password."
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/10/29/bitcoin-software-company-synonym-launches-bitkit-a-bitcon-wallet-powered-by-slashtags-protocol/
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53 sats \ 2 replies \ @go 29 Oct 2022
"Unfortunately, Bitkit cannot provide automatic Lightning connections to residents of the United States (yet)."
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @rijndael 29 Oct 2022
ah. I was wondering. I remember when blocktank launched, you couldn't use it from the US (I think that's still the case). It's open source, but for the official instance of it, its no-US. Was wondering if they solved that for BitKit yet
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @go 29 Oct 2022
I remember Carvalho at some point saying on twitter he wouldn't hire anyone from the US because he wanted to avoid the regulatory baggage that would come with that. There's more there than I can see
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