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Fun conversation about payment rails and the opportunity ahead with Ed Woodford, CEO of Zero Hash, an awesome Lightspark partner we have big things brewing with!

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Archaic and incompatible payment rails that we are dependent on today are holding back global GDP. Whether you are an Uber Driver, an Airbnb host, YouTube creator or a Spotify creator, money movement infrequently holds you back! David Marcus, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightspark, sat down with Edward Woodford, Founder and CEO of Zero Hash, to talk about why money should move around the world like any other piece of data travels on the internet. Watch the full discussion: https://lnkd.in/eiZ8HU6V #Lightning #Crypto #DigitalAssets #CreatorEconomy

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Excited to be live with Zero Hash to extend the reach and the types of customers we can serve on the Lightspark stack with Lightning and UMA. More soon…

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We are delighted to share that Zero Hash has officially launched support for the Lightning Network and Universal Money Address (UMA), in partnership with Lightspark. Zero Hash’s crypto and stablecoin infrastructure seamlessly enables lightning rails for customers to build real-world utility and new innovative models for the future of payments across remittances, commerce, payroll, and brokerages “Lightning is another example of Zero Hash simplifying access to the future rails and transfer of rail. Our partnership with Lightspark enables our customers to send BTC at fast speeds and low costs globally rivaling incumbent methods,” said Edward Woodford, Founder and CEO of Zero Hash. Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/ej_7Nvnq #Lightning #Payments #Crypto #BTC

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We’re thrilled that Nubank has selected Lightspark to bring the #Bitcoin Lightning Network and Universal Money Addresses to its platform and 100 million customers. We’re working with the Nu team on the technical integration and will have more to share in the future. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gFS5tbKu ⚡
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And... It's live! Welcome to moving #Bitcoin at the speed of light, Coinbase! We're so thrilled to be part of this journey with you to bring Lightning to 100s of millions of people in over 100 countries. Big milestone for the entire network and for Bitcoin. Let's go! https://lnkd.in/gNfPhq8J

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I am thrilled to share that Coinbase has selected Lightspark to enable the #Bitcoin Lightning Network across its platform and services. Yet another significant milestone for Lightning! ⚡to many millions of new people and 100+ countries coming soon! Read more here: bit.ly/3xkjwAH

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More developer tooling now available at Lightspark! Take it for a spin. This one is particularly fun.

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Excited to share a new Repl I've been working on to help developers become more familiar with ⚡ Lightspark's SDKs. Wallet, exchange, and neo-bank developers can now easily test sending and receiving payments in multiple fiat currencies using UMA – all within a convenient UMA playground that you can fork to run yourself and see all the code making it work! Check it out here 👀 : bit.ly/493CoC0 – and a huge shoutout to our design team (especially Pat Capulong and Ajay Mantri) for the sweet design!

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Super rough edges still, BUT this morning, we had the very first end-to-end Universal Money Address (UMA) transactions between different countries, wallets, and currencies powered by #Bitcoin Lightning Network under the hood : 1) In terminal mode from the US with Bakkt in US dollars (with the wrong fee) to Bitnob in Ghana in Ghanaian Cedi (client-side receive not complete yet, so not shown, but received server-side, performance not optimized yet); 2) From Argentina with Ripio in USDC to Pouch in the Philippines in Philippines peso; 3) From Ghana with Bitnob in BTC (perf not optimized yet) to Pouch in the Philippines in Philippines peso. For all but one of these transactions, consumers will never need to know #Bitcoin was the net settlement asset and network between these institutions, just like sending an email doesn't require consumers to know anything about SMTP. Lightspark open-sourced and announced UMA less than two months ago, so we're still in the very early phase of the standard roll-out. But, by the time these implementations get into the hands of consumers, the experience will be magical. An always-on, currency-agnostic, 24/7 settlement network with human-readable addresses. We wanted to share the same day even though much more work will happen to make this production ready in weeks to come. We're incredibly grateful to all our partners across the world and the ones actively implementing now. We really can't wait to make this mass market in 2024!

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Today, we're open sourcing the Universal Money Address (UMA) standard. It's just like email, but for money. Users of UMA-enabled banks, exchanges, and wallets will be able to send and receive money (fiat and crypto) seamlessly and in a fully interoperable way. This is early, but we hope you'll join us on this journey to build a better way to move money around the world. For more, check out https://uma.me and see below for Lightspark's solution to bring UMA to your users.
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