Attention is both a curse and a blessing. On the one hand, almost every Bitcoiner wants more adoption and welcomes any coverage that might attract one or two new users to Bitcoin. After all, the peaceful revolution to separate money and state can only succeed if more people join it. On the other hand, not […]

A fundamental choice of Satoshi in the development of Bitcoin (that is rather rarely talked about) is the fact that Bitcoin is Free Open Source Software. Every cycle new users and developers become interested in Bitcoin and try to wrap their heads around it. While software licensing and development process is not high up on […]

We have opened registration for our BTCPay Server instance! It has 99% uptime since December 2018 and we plan to keep it up. It enables many great features like HW wallet support, internal wallet, shops, apps, crowdfunding site, donation button (without address reuse), and many other empowering tools. For an introduction see: https://docs.btcpayserver.org/ Feel free […]

What became a meme during the scaling debate will beome reality at the Lightning Hackday in Munich on June 1st 2019. Münchner Kaffeerösterei will provide coffee to guests of the hackday, and guests can pay their coffee only – that’s right – with Bitcoin! ZOMG! Since adding each and every coffee transaction to the blockchain, […]

It’s official: Munich gets it’s first bar, where you can pay for drinks with Lightning Network (LN). Deli at daytime and bar in the evening, Bikini Mitte is a decent place located in the heart of Munich. The venue now has its own Lightning Node, which offers guests the opportunity to settle their bill with […]