"#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it's like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet." - Elizabeth Stark Today we read an article from earlier this year on the massive advances we have seen in Lightning since its inception, and the awesome potential it has for the future. Written by Elizabeth Stark, co-founder of Lightning Labs, and followed by a long rant about all of the tools I’ve been using and the amazing things that are made possible with them! Entering the Decade of Lightning, by Elizabeth Stark https://medium.com/@lightning_labs/entering-the-decade-of-lightning-8c4a4d31167f Links Below of all the incredible services and wallets available to begin experimenting with: Breez Wallet: https://breez.technology Zap Wallet: https://zap.jackmallers.com Strike: https://twitter.com/ln_strike Blue Wallet: https://bluewallet.io Muun Wallet: https://muun.com Wallet of Satoshi: https://www.walletofsatoshi.com BTCPayServer: https://btcpayserver.org/ Fold App: https://foldapp.com And don't forget SwanBitcoin for the best damn sleep in the world, regard of which stupid mattress you bought. Auto buying Bitcoin every week and waking up to that sweet notification that you have safely and securely stacked more bitcoins. SwanBitcoin.com/guy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect unregulated casinos to do. This is no place you ever want to send anyone."  - Rusty Russell A sobering and important reminder of the dangers that exchanges have come to pose for people new to the Bitcoin space. Rusty Russell writes a concise piece breaking down the incentives of the exchange market and the increasing risks they pose in hooking people with the promise they can buy Bitcoin, and trapping them in the cycle of chasing green candles on 57 varieties of crap. From Rusty's excellent blog with many other great little thoughts, check out below for tons of other great insight and discussion: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/ Looking for that Bitcoin only, no noise, long term place to send your friends to buy Bitcoin? SwanBitcoin.com/guy will get them $10 free to start off, and not even once try to convince them to buy XRP. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message