The Nostr Lounge sold items and participated in this record 🥹
⚡️🏆 NEW - Bitcoin breaks a Guinness book world record with over 4,000 payments in a single day.
At Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas , the crypto community quietly achieved what many considered impossible: more than 4,000 real Bitcoin transactions in a single day, with real people buying real items.
Participants achieved the Guinness World Records™ title of "Most Bitcoin POS transactions in 8 hours", completing 4,001 transactions in that time.
This is the best way to answer the debate as to whether BTC is better suited to a "store of value" or "means of payment" function.
https://blossom.primal.net/7b3d74886979ed4dadfcc310de4d7eb6a983d2b69492c8666fd940ef190a0269.mp4
Discussion
lightning is still better but i'm sure it was a fun stunt
We used Lightning...
lightning's ephemerality, being like cash in that you don't know where those sats have been, kinda makes that a he said she said kinda situation
the volume of retail payments going through lightning is literally not possible to calculate, with any kind of scientific and statistical validity
the moneros will try to complain about this but their blocks have definite tx counts even if you can't decode them.