Thank you for HRF’s continued support for all these worthy FOSS projects and initiatives 🙏💯

Solid piece 👍 @naddr1qq28...

Gotcha. Just dm whenever you wanna drop by

Will be around tomorrow (Wednesday) til about 3 pm if you wanna stop by. Already left for the day.

In addition, @npub1vgm8u... also took 3rd place in the Bitcoin Designathon by the Bitcoin Design Community, in addition to designing the BRRRR ecash website with UX Erik.

Here we go again!!

Excited to announce Cohort 4 of the BOB Buidlers Residency program. The theme for this Cohort is ‘Usability’, which ranges from UX/UI designers to projects that aim to make #Bitcoin more user friendly, especially for those in the Global South.

Before we get to the Residents, huge thanks go out to Tokyo Bitcoin Base (@npub10aenq...) for co-sponsoring Cohort 4. The initiative and efforts shown by Teruko (@npub19x0h8...) there were truly remarkable. So glad we could make this first-of-its-kind #Bitcoin only collaboration happen.

Now for the Residents and Projects: there’re 2 Projects and 2 Resident Designers in this Cohort.

Each Project aims to make specific features of Bitcoin (like privacy and everyday payments) easier to use. They will be supported by experienced and proven Resident Designers.

Cohort 4’s Resident Projects:

1) User-friendly Silent Payments Wallet by @theanmolsharma_ on X (github.com/theanmolsharma)

2) Bounty for Openpleb QR-to-Lightning payments platform implementations (github.com/gandlafbtc/open-pleb). This project was ideated by Gandlaf (@npub1cj6nd...), who was also a Cohort 1 Resident.

Cohort 4’s Resident Designers:

X) Veronika or V (@npub1vgm8u...) an experienced designer with active contributions to @npub1m495f..., amongst others.

Y) Adeyemi Matthew (@npub1h72t0...) another experienced designer who contributed to #StratumV2 in 2024 and whose team took third place in the SKBD wallet hackathon in 2025.

Welcome to Cohort 4 everyone! Look forward to another great one.

Last Friday (Aug 8), Meetup 1 of Grassroots Lightning Month kicked off to a roaring start. @npub13vhl0... from #WelB talked about his journey of orange-pilling small merchants in Thailand and onboarding them onto the Lightning network.

Here are some images from the meetup, including all the things you can buy with Lightning in Thailand. Products and services range from coffee, food, homemade ghee to barbershop, car wash, books, clothing and Muay Thai lessons/workouts.

If this was any indication, can’t wait for the Aug 22nd double-feature event!



@note13wrvp...

August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space BKK. 3 events have been posted in Meetup per links below.

Aug 8 - Meetup 1 with My from WelB. He’ll talk about onboarding small merchants to Lightning, especially in eastern Bangkok.

Aug 22 - Meetup 2 with Mick, who’s been orange pilling any merchant with a pulse in Huay Pheung district, Kalasin province.

Also Aug 22 - the augural outdoors Lightning Free Market, where small merchants can come sell their food, beverages and other stuff on the front lawn of BOB Space. They will all accept Lightning payments.

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/310308479/

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/310308762/

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/310308868/

To wrap up Mempool and Transactions Month, meetup 2 this Friday is a continuation from last time, and provides a more technical deep dive into various transaction types. Join us!!

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/308881501/

Our next edition of the BOB Buildlers Residency, Cohort 4, is coming. The theme for this one is #Usability. Stay tuned …

Roger's stuff is always a good long-form read. Well written yet again 👍 @naddr1qq4r...

Next Friday (Jun 27th), our bi-weekly meetup features a discussion of FOSS Bitcoin Grants, followed by an Application Writing Demo.
Might be of interest to those looking to take that next step.

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/308580249/