Private purchasing - pay with bitcoin, pickup at an access point. No need to give us any personal information
https://bitkey.world/learning-hub/bitkey-basics/privacy/bitkey-privacy#pickup-points
The Age of Disclosure https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0NVVP9AVUZEJKG9CJC4RQE9J27/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
One more sleep until millions of Square sellers can start accepting bitcoin with a click of a button
not our keys, not our business
https://bitkey.build/not-our-keys-not-our-business/?ref=bitkey-newsletter
proud of what our team built here
Connecting the ecosystem with Square has been the dream since we launched bitcoin in nostr:nprofile1qqsvwct7ssehccgu040egxe4k8k9ru4wd605r2kfv9sf94gsu8pftcqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0nyfe6a in 2018
Starting today, all merchants can now seamlessly stack bitcoin behind the scenes from their daily sales
Bitcoin Payments Acceptance will be live for everyone on November 10
https://blossom.primal.net/25d6e113c9b12b602934303459405dfbcfe0333a69d00b959165b79ba86f61ac.mov
making Bitcoin everyday money
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And having the option to convert directly to fiat, there’s zero reason for a seller not to want to opt in
“rather than admit we as an industry have handed them the hardest part of the problem, we call it ‘personal responsibility’ - as if it were a moral virtue, not a design failure.”
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There's no 3P reliance on Bitkey. Customers can always unilaterally exit without Block Servers or the Bitkey App using the Emergency Exit Kit.
https://support.bitkey.world/hc/en-us/sections/37470033273236-Emergency-Exit-Kit
Making Bitcoin everyday money
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/block-bitcoin-checkout-vegas.html
Seed phrases were a big UX improvement more than a decade ago. But today better solutions exist. In our last blog post we lay out why Bitkey is different:
💡 600M people in Africa lack reliable electricity.
I've seen firsthand the work that Gridless is doing to change that, using bitcoin mining to put stranded energy to use, finance clean energy expansion, and bring energy prices down for communities who really need it.
Read more: https://proto.xyz/blog/possible-futures-002
low hanging fruit
When we launched a year ago we published Bitkey’s source code, so anyone could see and verify how it works. Now, we're moving to a fully open-source license, so anyone can build with it.
Rick Rubin’s unexpected conversation series is great
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tetragrammaton-with-rick-rubin/id1671669052?i=1000668698005
We're building Bitkey to eliminate the trade-offs in self-custody. And not just to bring new people into self-custody, but to make an incredible wallet for bitcoiners, too.
And we're sharing what's next on our roadmap. We want to know what you're excited about and what you want to see next, so take a look here:
