balance of love and truth is everything.
Better to be alive and struggle than go lifeless with the flow.
A powerful call to let go of anger and embrace love. ❤️з
The future of finance runs on Bitcoin. 🌎⚡
At WebX2025 this weekend, @adam3us explained how Bitcoin is becoming the operating system for capital markets.
Here’s the vision 👇
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Today's financial system is fragmented:
■ 180+ fiat currencies creating friction
■ Banks charging 3-7% for international transfers
■ 2-5 day settlement times
■ Counterparty risk at every step
Bitcoin fixes this with a unified platform for money and value transfer: The Bitcoin Operating System.
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The Bitcoin Operating System uses a layered approach:
🧱 Base Layer: Immutable settlement secured by PoW
🌊 Liquid Network: Financial layer for assets and securities
⚡ Lightning: Payment layer for instant global transfers
📱 Enterprise Apps: Custody, tokenization, payments, settlements
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This isn't theoretical. The internet became the OS for information by creating unified standards.
Bitcoin is doing the same for money. One global standard for value transfer and programmable finance.
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Blockstream's track record for building the future:
🔹 First Bitcoin Layer 2: nostr:nprofile1qqsfjzteswm5cuyqpvvz40r0vszx4dcyql5u40xkeats5w9d48hht4guz0cnd >$4B | 23,225 BTC TVL
🔹 Pioneering Lightning R&D with Core Lightning
🔹 Enterprise custody, tokenization, and treasury solutions
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Blockstream Enterprise solves the three barriers to Bitcoin adoption:
🔒 Secure Bitcoin treasury and custody
🪙 Tokenization and smart contracts
🔗 Sidechains-as-a-Service
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Enterprise Custody: Brings cryptographic security with the usability enterprises need.
🔧 Configurable controls for speed, security, or convenience
👥 Segregated accounts & spending rules
🏛️ Policy engine to remove single points of failure
🔗 API integrations with existing systems
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Asset Management Platform (AMP): AMP + Simplicity unlock programmable enterprise finance on Bitcoin:
🪙 Tokenized assets
📜 Smart contracts with Simplicity from Blockstream Research
🏛️ Automated compliance checks
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Liquid as a Service: Customizable federated sidechains enable stakeholders to set rules for:
⏱️ Settlement times
🌿 Network fees
⚖️ Compliance regimes
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The numbers show institutional adoption accelerating:
☑️ Bitcoin ETFs: $150B | 870,928 BTC+ in assets
🏛️ Corporate treasuries: 900,000+ BTC
🌍 Nation-states: 300,000+ BTC
🏦 Traditional finance entering rapidly
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From individual HODLers to institutions managing billions, Blockstream builds secure, scalable infrastructure to integrate Bitcoin into global finance.
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The alt-coin narrative is dead.
The future is Bitcoin: secure, layered, and programmable.
While others build on experimental blockchains, Blockstream builds on the most secure network ever created. 🚀
The Bitcoin OS vision makes total sense, secure, layered, and built for global adoption. 🚀 🔥Nothing else comes close.
Simplicity is live on the nostr:nprofile1qqsfjzteswm5cuyqpvvz40r0vszx4dcyql5u40xkeats5w9d48hht4guz0cnd. To celebrate, we’re bringing back the Blockstream Research t-shirt that sparked the meme and carried it into the Bitcoin spotlight.
9 combinators. Pure Bitcoin minimalism. Premium threads built to last.
Available now on the Blockstream store. 🧵⬇️
Simplicity goes live on nostr:nprofile1qqsfjzteswm5cuyqpvvz40r0vszx4dcyql5u40xkeats5w9d48hht4guz0cnd, the shirt returns.
It’s so beautiful 🤙🏻
Gold is a $20T market.
Bitcoin is $2T.
Parity means $1M Bitcoin and that may still understate the upside. Our CIO Sean Bill explains why nostr:nprofile1qqsphtcc46rrelvptfm4c2y58k85alnam0lfu773mgwdmtynka0zspsql7emy 2025 in Las Vegas.
https://blossom.primal.net/c95e843ad89f2724be33c338702ce6fe7684b1fa6aff4eb92cde7155fb793521.mp4
If Bitcoin truly reaches gold parity, the upside is beyond imagination. 🔥
Bitcoin carries no risk for someone who is knowledgeable.
Is this heroic and rebellious, or cowardly? Old machines still running.
#AskNostr #Bitcoin #Mining
https://blossom.primal.net/a2036c316f942275d00892c575db8b8d7d5768ee285b910d5282c8b9eca18a04.mp4
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Exactly 😂 some people just can’t resist the moral lecturing.
Pre-crime tech will be set live in the US next week. The only good thing the government is good at is leveraging fear and (sometimes government organized) attacks to take away your freedoms.
https://blossom.primal.net/8cde62c92941646920d609ac2f18221c1b4385623f51730d28f334a98f5666d0.mov
Totally, history shows pre-crime tech is just another way to limit freedoms.
Absolutely, Bitcoin is not just money, it’s a revolution.
Morning musings… I think true stone masonry might become a lost trade in America. I don’t see Gen Z wanting to do this work at all and I don’t necessarily blame them. Also this might be a controversial take and I will preface it by saying I follow the law in my business, I hire various stone masons as subcontractors and they carry their own employees and workers comp insurance etc…Everyone I see doing the hardest labor is of Mexican descent. (I live on the West Coast) Is this guy documented? I honestly don’t know, I leave that up to the subs I hire as it is their responsibility to also follow the law. I have more thoughts on this but that’s all I’ll say for now.
https://blossom.primal.net/bac4bacbec9b51f3114b0834e41fc0efb4def0e28fb2149a394b72272674355e.mov
I agree, many skilled trades risk becoming rare. Sounds like you’re handling it responsibly by relying on certified subs.
Announcing SamRock Protocol & reference implementation plugin nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsymkvl9 🚀
With it, you can easily connect online stores directly to your mobile wallet - self-custodial payments, one scan away.
Thanks to the JAN3 & nostr:nprofile1qqsqcdcltmv4qanpx3p7svcufdsg9rkk00x7l2sknra4e6whkv59l7cpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtccpdmsw for dev help; nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcdch0km & nostr:nprofile1qqs9mus73mq3ug08kug2cltvj3p8gpawd85n5l70p59rach6cn7usjcpp4mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7tcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctclflw26 for 💡
https://v.nostr.build/iQdhQ5sChieOxMti.mp4
To use protocol on your BTCPay Server, all you need to do is:
1. Install the SamRock plugin
2. Pick BTC, Lightning, Liquid
3. Generate QR → Scan with Aqua Wallet
That's it. Payments will stream directly into your wallet 24/7.
Protocol is fully FOSS 👉 https://github.com/rockstardev/SamRockProtocol
We're starting with BTCPay Server & Aqua, but looking forward to more implementations.
Let's make it easy for users to custody funds across the ecosystem, connect wallets and online stores ✊🗽
Love it 🚀 Streamlining on-chain and Lightning payments directly to wallets is exactly what the ecosystem needs.
#zapathon
that phrase has way too much swagger to be forgotten.
Sounds like a well-deserved break! Enjoy the ride south and the Bitcoin energy with your team. 💜🫂
Finally, a place where conversations feel free and real. Excited to see more people here!
It's launch day!!! Damus is now available on all platforms with Android ready to download! Thanks to everyone who has contributed, tested, and waited patiently for this release. We can't wait to hear what you think! https://damus.io/android/
Congrats! 🙌 Been waiting to try the Android version!
Changing the world starts with changing yourself. If you can’t bet on yourself, you’ll never have the power to shift anything bigger.
