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We share insights about enterprise Bitcoin adoption and building an open source financial system.

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Moving Open Source Up the Bitcoin Stack – Baltic Honeybadger 2023

In this talk from Baltic Honeybadger 2023 in Riga, Nicolas Burtey digs into the topic of open source beyond the Bitcoin and Lightning protocol layer.
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Be Your Own Bank (For Corporations) – MSTR World 2023

Nicolas Burtey presents at MSTR World Bitcoin and Lightning for Corporations, 2023
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What are the industry use cases of the Bitcoin Lightning Network?

The Bitcoin Lightning Network has been designed as a global payment network. However, unlike traditional payment networks, Lightning not only involves messaging, i.e., the exchange of payment instructions but also immediately involves a final bilateral settlement.
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The Lightning Cash Register: POS Payments on the Lightning Network for Merchants

The Lightning Cash Register – a new Point of Sale (POS) feature for merchants – makes it even easier and more secure to accept bitcoin over the Lightning Network.
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Announcing Stablesats: Bringing USD to the Lightning Network

Announcing Stablesats: Bringing USD to the Lightning Network
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Galoy Newsletter #4: Bitcoin Mortgages and The Case for Open Source

New Story Partnering with Bitcoin Beach and Galoy to Make Homeownership Accessible
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Bitcoin Mortgage Payments: Making Homeownership Possible in El Zonte

The impact of having a safe place to call home is hard to overstate.
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Galoy Newsletter #3: Bitcoin For Communities, Support for Tonga, Cash App Adds Lightning

Bitcoin Lightning Network Hackday coming to Istanbul Feb 25th to 27th, 2022. Intel to announce a Bitcoin mining ASIC. Strike rolls out in Argentina. Read on for this month’s Lightning news.
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Bitcoin For Communities – Supporting the Front Lines of Bitcoin Adoption

Galoy donated 21 million sats to innovative Bitcoin projects and communities around the world. Bitcoin Beach fully matched the donation — doubling the charitable contribution to a total of 42 millions sats — to help
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Galoy Newsletter #2: Galoy Raises $3m Seed Round, Adopting Bitcoin Videos, Lightning Network News

51 recorded talks and panels from Adopting Bitcoin have been published to BitcoinTV. Spiral, Lightning Labs and Voltage built tools to help Lightning developers and node runners. Stripe co-founder signaled increased interest in Lightning.
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Galoy Raises $3m Seed Round to Help Communities and Institutions Use Bitcoin as Money

Craft Ventures is joined by Kingsway Capital, Trammell Venture Partners and Balaji Srinivasan to accelerate Lightning Network adoption through the Galoy open source Bitcoin banking platform.
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Bullish on Bitcoiners: Recap of the Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit in El Salvador

The summit brought together more than 700 attendees and 75 speakers from all over the world to share and debate ideas about Lightning development and Bitcoin adoption.
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Bitcoin Banking for Communities: Lessons Learned from Bitcoin Beach

Revolutionary change is usually sparked by those that are too young and naïve to understand that their undertaking is doomed to fail.
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The Galoy Origin Story: How We Got Our Name

“What does Galoy mean?” is a question we get asked a lot. We decided to share a bit of history regarding how we got the name Galoy.