> Before Bitcoin, all digital scarcity was scarcity by authority—authority that can be circumvented or exploited. It was always simulated scarcity. Virtual, not real.

> Bitcoin is the first money that is digital but not virtual. Before Bitcoin, any link between the digital and the physical was always rooted in trust and human interpretation, not physical reality. Bitcoin’s link to the real world is defined by numbers and their mathematical relationships; relationships so extreme, that they can only be brought about by real events in the real world. Consequently, the processes in Bitcoin are not subject to opinion or interpretation.

Strike Sending API Documentation is now public ⚡️

Now anyone can use our infrastructure to make Lightning payments with US Dollars (just like people make Visa, ACH, SWIFT, etc. payments with US Dollars)

Customer doesn't have to own bitcoin to make a Lightning payment, no volatility concerns, no taxable events, no additional accounting requirements, no added legal/compliance burden. Strike handles it all. Just pay Lightning invoices with USD.

Hopeful to announce some banks and bigger financial institutions that are using Lightning as opposed to networks like SWIFT soon.

An open value transfer protocol for the world!