Announcing Strike Europe
Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers
Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.
We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.
When EU?!? Now 🫡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cboYEHuXwbc&ab_channel=JackMallers
Congrats!
Thank you for your service! Been enjoying it since yesterday and it’s fucking awesome
Humble ⚡️
next time you should break the news via nostr. make the twitter serfs wait
Amazing news!
Strike EU, not Europe.
EU - Political Union
Europe - A Continent
I will continue to call this out until American’s learn the difference
🤓🤓🤓 Strictly speaking, Europe is not a continent, it is part of Eurasia, which is the actual continent.
Sure, if you want to include Asia. 🤣
Eurasia
Europe
It doesn’t change the fact that the EU still isn’t Europe 🤣
😂😜 The question is not whether I want it or not, Europe and Asia are de facto one huge piece of land called the Eurasian Plate, from UK to South China.
False.
It actually is whether you want it to be or not.
Whilst you can indeed find geographer’s/scholars who define a continent as a single mass of land, you can also find just as many (more infact) who define a continent by more than a single mass of land.
This debate has been argued for centuries & it is NOT universally agreed upon.
If you choose to agree upon on it, you have indeed chosen whether you want to or not. 🤣
So basically the UK will not get Strike I’m guessing. 😩
Yeah we’re getting it, pretty quickly after the EU jack stated. 🤣
Italy isn’t even on the map so it’s not really either yet.
UK next?
Honestly, I am very surprised it’s not yet available in the UK… I would expect Germany to be the last country on Earth to approve something like this. I am sure it’s simply because our government has not realized yet what Strike actually is.
The FCA is notoriously strict on Bitcoin. They still ban investors from buying Bitcoin ETFs too. Literally they're worse than the SEC!
(I know the ETFs are a controversial subject but I still want my pension to go into BTC and an ETF is the only way it'll happen.)
Nice work Jack! Any scope on when it might land in the UK? Itching to download and play with this.
👀
Wow congrats
Already signed up. 💥 Go push lightning use in the EU
And they are giving away free sats 🤩🙏🥳
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Wen Mexico, Jack?
Congratulations on the launch, my man. Fire video as usual. I guess now people will start asking Wen UK? 🤣
Always have been.
usually i feel lucky that switzerland is not part of the EU. not so today.
some EU is not part or the EU either 😂
LFG 🫂
Wen Switzerland? (It's not in the app store yet)
Congrats!! Huge milestone.
Can't verify 😅 (my ID is ok!)
Top many people are registering?
And the app doesn't let me retry 😂
I've been temporary ban 🥹
Loving this, been waiting for years and finaly its here
I would also assume this means that Primal's wallet is available in these new locations too.
To celebrate the nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 launch in good old Europe, I decided to switch my #Nostr #lightning address to my brand new sexy strike address: urlaub@strike.me
Feel free to zap me harder! #zapathon
Come on nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle - Strike me in 🇪🇺, if you can 🤙
Quelqu'un a pu créer un compte sur Strike? Je ne passe pas la vérification de la CNI (ancienne version)
PS : à trop essayer on prend un ban d'un moment (à définir 😅)
Having an issue with bank deposit not going through. Glad to help stress testing the system 🤙🏼
Whats happens if you send USD over lightning to a Euro Strike account?
Try me: tester71@strike.me
But 🐎 you are prob Euro account like me🙂
Ahhh, right!
If a generous American send some USD to your strike address let us what happens!
Should he converted straight into #bitcoin if it works correctly 🫡
Depending on exchange rate used and fees that could be interesting for doing cross atlantic no-kyc p2p bitcoin trades (fe robosats)
I think solutions like Cashu could me more interesting for that. 👀
There is no easy way to convert fiat to (usd?) cashu yet. Strike onboarding and linking your legacy bank is straightforward, even for noobs
I still don’t get it… For example, what happens now of I accept a offer on Robosats to buy bitcoin and the dude wants to receive their cash via Strike?
You would get a lightning invoice from the guy that wants EUR cash. The btc seller will receive euros in his strike account (I just tested this). The robosats order is released and the BTC buyer get gets BTC over lightning.
🙏🏻🫂 Happy that it works!
But just think about this: The guy sells bitcoin to then receive bitcoin that immediately get swapped into EUR 😂
Yes but the BTC purchase is not registered in strike, you just spend some cash deposited from your bank. Like sending fiat from your bank account for a p2p btc purchase.
You‘re right, I think this is the trick!
Do you think it would also work if the buyer if the buyer was in the EU and the seller in the US, or vice versa?
I was asking that question to Jack, what happen if I send a LN ‘EUR invoice’ to a USD strike user and they pay it. I will probably ‘receive it as EUR’, they could pay the ln invoice from both their Bitcoin stack or use the Cash tab in Strike, then it would be deducted from their USD account (using btc/usd exchange rate)
Should work in theory
I see! Sounds great if true. That means I just have to have enough EUR in my Cash tab to cover the „USD LN invoice“ of whoever wants to receive USD from me.
Yes have to use the receive by LN invoice on the Cash tab. It seems to add some metadata to tell Strike to convert the btc to EUR when received... If you use the strike LN address you'll just get Bitcoin...
Interestingly the EUR LN invoice expires after 1 minute! It makes sense because of exchange rate fluctuations.
Already a user. Great app. Congrats!
Already downloaded and will test it in few minutes :) how Do you make free onchain transaction at that fees ?
Hey Jack, how is Canada going?
I know you're working on it. The three countries I'm most looking forward to are Canada, the UK and Japan.
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Nice news, thank you for your work
Can anybody tell why should I switch from revolut?
My use case is: buy kyc tether > my erc20 wallet > sideshift to liquid tether > swap to lbtc (mainly dca) > boltz to my lightning node > boltz to cold wallet when fees are reasonable.
This way they only know that I bought tether, so no gain (taxes).
If you're trying to go KYC free why not just use Hodl hodl or Bisq or robosats 😉
well, for robosats you need revolut as well (or something else instant). sepa is slow. instant sepa is usually not an option for me. and with the ridiculous transaction limits you can't even buy like a 1m sats (when btc is up) 🤷♂️
I mean yes you need some sort of bank account that can do SEPA if you're in Europe to trade on any of those platforms. SEPA instant has always been very fast for me (I mostly use it on Hodl Hodl) and I've had no issues buying large amounts, not sure why you get limited to 1m sats.
But what you seem to be looking for is KYC free BTC, P2P trading is your best bet, since then youre just sending $$ to a person and not a particular platform. They dont even know that you bought "tether".
I use all the options. Even nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3
For larger amounts I trust the liquid federation more then any bank. It happened many times to me that some wire payment was held by any side of the transaction. Even for weeks. Or returned (with all the fees involved).
The thing is a new legislation which technically requires the receiver to "verify" where the money came from. Happened to me that the transaction was held until I proofed the funds (which obv resulted in a failed trade, because we all know how fast these things are).
Not all banks support instant sepa...
okay so up until the point of swapping through sideshift it's trackable. sideshift however knows where it is sending liquid tether, and then if you're swapping it to l-btc, you're probably using sideswap, who also knows the input and output and they know it's "buying bitcoin" event. liquid to lightning to onchain - thats the part where its obvious it's bitcoin and not stablecoin.
your problem might be that they could potentially track your swaps through sideshift and sideswap, to learn you are buying bitcoin and not holding tether usd.
might be unprobable, but there's a chance. better to abandon kyc altogether.
I wish I could.
But good point. AFAIK these swaps should be fungible. Am I mistaken?
[suggestion]
look at vexl.it app, it's p2p marketplace, that uses hash of your mobile number and hashes of numbers from contact list, to find buy/sell offers from people you know/ people from your contacts know.
everything is encrypted and private, until you choose to reveal identity in 1:1 chat.
satoshi labs, company behind 1st hardware wallet Trezor works on that. #p2pFTW
[are these swaps fungible?]
well it depends how far does the tax man want to look.
sideshift collects ip address, crypto addresses, times etc.. (so use good vpn that you pay for in monero or lightning (mullvad, ivpn, no shit like nordvpn)
they respond to law enforcement requests. so if tax man writes them email asking where they sent liquid bitcoin that was swapped from usdt erc20, they will tell on you.
if i had to bring some solution, i can say that if someone used exch.cx which is on belize and doesn't collect shit, and you can request deletion of a swap after its done, you could swap USDT on eth, to XMR , which renders any transactions beyond untraceable, and then you could swap this through them again to lightning.
or directly usdt eth to lightning. just be cautious and i cant recommend anything to you nor anyone, i can just point out what exists. be safe
well for stablecoins, you also have options to hold them on some eth l2 like Arbitrum or Polygon - cheap and fast txs.
there's also option to live inside cosmos ecosystem, cosmos hub, osmosis or other chains inside it. liquidity pools provide cheap swaps.
but try to not link any identity to those addresses on eth/cosmos, as they are completely transparent
Thank you for all the suggestions 🙏
if any tax man and/or officers from governments are reading these posts, please bear in mind that im not and its not even in my intention to explain how to do illegal things.
i very much respect the law and i think taxes are very good and everyone should pay them. every good citizen should tax every money event that they do and pay even more taxes than they are required to so that we can have roads and stuff.
i would never encourage anyone to do stuff that go against the law. thanks
And doesn't disclose amounts?
NOOOIIICE!
🚀 Let’s go Strike team!!!
This is probably the best place to ask. Is Strike full KYC service?
Yes. You must give email, name address and photo of id or driver license.
Hmmmm seems pretty far from self custody btc ethos. It makes sense though..this is the only way to operate at this scale I guess. It's a huge business. It connects to bank accounts for fiat onramp transactions I guess.
the idea is i presume to deposit fiat from bank, and pay it out on your self-custodial lightning wallet as bitcoin.
but dont do this. buy peer-to-peer anonymously as satoshi intended in the spirit of cryptoanarchy.
I started installing and then all the #kyc info popped up and needed to clarify the options. Thanks.
There is place for this sort of services for sure but it is not Satoshi's way that is 100% true.
For each their own.
ONWARDS!✊
Yeah. For normies I think it's a nice thing to start on bitcoin, bc you can receive and send bitcoin and switch to fiat.
and proof of address
already became a customer, let's see
wen europe actually happened?
i dont play this kyc fiat game, but please explain the following:
if someone pays my lightning invoice that originated from cash account, did *i BUY bitcoin* ?
if i pay someone lightning invoice from my CASH account, did *i sell bitcoin* ?
i wont participate and find out what tax man thinks, but im curious on your interpretation, thanks
Unfortunately I’ll pass for now, as the first question is KYC. I understand it’s not your fault, but…
interesting, then i'm one of the very first european users I guess? Signing up more than an hour before your post here.
Amazing news! Bravo!👏
Spain is not EU anymore? When did we leave?
🫡👍🏽
Ser, Italy is in Europe, no? 🤔
Si vede che la mafietta delle banche italiane sta provando a resistere
wen UpperCase?
Strike makes it possible to live 99% off zaps.
Shelter = Air B&B gift cards
Food = Woolworth / Uber Eats gift
internet = E sim
☝🏻
I'm confused around the fee structure. Your website mentions a max of 0.99% (https://strike.me/faq/what-are-the-bitcoin-trading-fees-on-strike/), however your app says 1.29%, as seen in the screenshot. So which one is it?
Serious question.
Why is Strike allowed to expand and continue, while Samourai gets shut down?
Tried it already it’s really great!
A #Strike megérkezett Európába, s ezzel együtt Magyarországra is. A fejlődés megállíthatatlan.
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Do you have plan for Canada?
Nice!!!!!!!!!
Yo0o this is nice nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle !
Has Strike some plans on becoming a traditional bank which serves IBAN numbers to client? If so, I can ditch my current bank and manage all my funds within one system which would be fully interoperable with fiat and btc systems..
I wanted to ask the same.
This would be so usefull as we can receive wage and pay rent and utilities with it.
congrats homie!!
Wen UK
My bank in the Netherlands is scared for you. They block my account because I deposit some of my own!!! money in Strike Europe. I hope you give the whole world the opportunity to have Strike app. nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle
when swiss?
very nice, are there any feed to be paid for buying bitcoins?
Have tried twice now with different IDs 😢 
Thank you, it’s awesome!
Wen Italy?
nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle awesome ... any chance Strike will be in Thailand soon ?
Sadly not in the UK 😢
will be soon
I love Strike. I wish you had gotten the Coinbase contract for their connection to the Lightning Network. Then I wouldn't be waiting three days for a simple send of 1000 sats to my strke wallet.
🤣
I told Coinbase to not be cowards and build it themselves. Be part of the network. Disappointed that have any contract
