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Samuel Manzanera  profile picture
It’s funny how this things evolve.
Few years ago when people asked me about AI and blockchain I was really skeptical, as they were completely different world:
- one is completely decentralized
- the other one is based on centralized data

Today we are facing the emergence of those two worlds from the agentic revolution.

There are not anymore siloed.

Decentralization and AI is moving as speed of light.

Always recognize your wrong and moves ahead it is what makes human progress.

So now I think AI can be a strong case to make blockchain and decentralization a growth catalyst and bring more adoption.

But it goes beyond, Nostr is moving really fast to embrace that movement.

Future of decentralization and AI seems to promise great things !





Samuel Manzanera  profile picture
Something big is happening on Nostr — and it’s not about social media anymore.
Programs and websites can now live directly on the protocol — signed, versioned, and published as events.



NIP-A5 — Programs
WASM binaries signed by developers, published to relays, executed by any client.
No backend. No app store. The sandbox is the platform.



NIP-C8 — Websites
Files hashed, manifest signed, fetched and verified by clients.
No “trust this server.” Sites are published, not hosted.



Why it matters
Nostr = identity + distribution + executable content.
IPFS + Ethereum tried this; now it works with just keys + relays + WASM.
No tokens, no gas, no consensus overhead.



The web was programmable at the edges. Then it centralized.
Now: clients run code, relays distribute, users own the keys.
We’re building a verifiable, executable web
Samuel Manzanera  profile picture
Everyone’s talking about “agentic AI,” but here’s a real use case for builders.

Analytics is still painfully manual—whether it’s Google Analytics or Plausible.

Then I tried PostHog.

One command:
npx -y @posthog/wizard@latest --region eu

With Anthropic’s Claude, it:
• Understands your code
• Adds event tracking automatically
• Sets everything up

No manual tagging. Just useful analytics.

This is what AI should be:
→ Understand your product
→ Integrate itself
→ Deliver real value

Not hype—actual leverage.
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Samuel Manzanera  profile picture
BitLasso is live !!!

When I founded HexQuarter, I wanted to build something beyond a engineering firm. 
I wanted a circular economy with the clients I work with.

The idea was simple: every payment becomes a receipt minted as a token. 
That token has real value — it can be redeemed for discounts on future projects. 
The more a client works with HexQuarter, the more tokens they accumulate, the better their discount, the more incentive to keep building together. 

A retention loop grounded in actual work done.

The scarcity of the token isn't arbitrary. I
It's backed by a Proof of Work — a real project completed, a real payment made. 
Value derived from work accomplished, not speculation.

But to make this work, I needed to accept Bitcoin. And every option was broken.

Custodial processors took a cut and held my funds. 
Self-hosted nodes meant managing rates and invoicing manually. 

There was no middle ground that was both sovereign and operational.

So I built it myself.

BitLasso started as a product for my own needs. 
Then I realized the gap was bigger: there's no cheap, simple way for businesses to accept Bitcoin without giving up custody or paying % fees on every transaction.

So I made it ~$1.

Under the hood:
→ Payments settled over Spark/Lightning/Bitcoin L1 — non-custodial
→ Nostr , is the anchoring layer, with no database we control, completly decentralized
→ Loyalty credits are tied to your wallet (Spark BTKN tokens), not an account that can be deleted

This is what Bitcoin-native commerce looks like. 
Not a crypto wrapper on the same old stack.

If you're a business done trusting intermediaries — or a developer curious about what building on Bitcoin actually looks like — come take a look.

-> bitlasso.xyz

Samuel Manzanera  profile picture
This is the kind of breakthrough we’ve been waiting for.

Not just for Bitcoin, but for the entire crypto ecosystem.

During my time at Archethic, we explored similar approaches — the vision was clear, but the tech wasn’t ready.

Great to see Breez pushing this forward.
Seedless UX is a game changer for Web3.

This is how mass adoption starts. 🚀
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Zsubmariner · 2w
What was it called?
Akamaister · 2w
Happy to https://mycontinuum.xyz/ and click "Downloads" that will explain more about Continuum and how you can set it up. and run it. Let me know if you have any questions Here is also a demo of...
Samuel Manzanera  profile picture
It shares some similarities with a project I’m building : SaaS platform that proves authorship, integrity, and lineage of any digital content — anchored permanently to Bitcoin. It targets creators, developers, enterprises, and AI-regulated workflows who need tamper-proof proof-of-authorship without requiring crypto knowledge.
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Akamaister · 2w
That sounds interesting. What I’m building with Continuum operates at a slightly different layer. Continuum is a local-first publishing node that manages identity (npubs), signed content, relay distribution, and durable archives so authors maintain custody of their writing. Your approach sounds...
Akamaister · 2w
i was thinking of "Apache Spark" not anything related to Lightning/L2 projects my apologies
Akamaister · 2w
Happy to https://mycontinuum.xyz/ and click "Downloads" that will explain more about Continuum and how you can set it up. and run it. Let me know if you have any questions Here is also a demo of installing and running continuum I posted a while ago (2/16/2026) https://is.gd/kfguKH