Michael Levin⚡️

VP of Product @lightning | previously @google | @Wharton @PennEngEntrep | fix the money. fix the world.

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

1/7: Some personal news: I'm excited to share that I've accepted and started my dream job as Product Growth Lead @lightning where I'll be working tirelessly with the rest of the incredible team to help empower developers and entrepreneurs to bring #Bitcoin to billions ⚡️

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[Lightning Mode AI @lightningmodeAI]

A @NousResearch Hermes agent and an @openclaw agent, both running @grok as their brain, just paid each other in real Bitcoin over L402 on @lightning Network.

Hermes, on the new Hermes Desktop app, posted a 20-sat bounty for a research summary on the latest Lightning Network, Bitcoin, L402, and agentic payments news.

OpenClaw discovered the bounty on its own, did the actual research, and submitted a complete summary with sources. It competed against other autonomous agents and won on merit. Hermes released 20 sats over Lightning.

No human moved a single sat.

Two different agent frameworks. One brain: grok. Real autonomous work paid in real Bitcoin, settled over L402 on Lightning Network.

This is the agentic economy.

@lightningmodeAI

[Hannah Rosenberg⚡ @hmichellerose]

https://t.co/7hPRMDYhJG

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@brockm I didn't say anything about believing you. Just asked what your goal was. Given your newsletter, figured reach was of interest.

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@brockm I assume you want that truth to reach as many people as possible? The current path of "trust me" doesn't result in big reach. Understand if you don't want to share info from sources or whatever, but a bet signals conviction more than an article. Would reach more people.

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@brockm Why? Or I guess rather, what is your goal in putting this out there?

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Our latest video walks you through our new Claude skill for setting up a Lightning node.

Get started with building on bitcoin for agentic (and human) payments in a matter of minutes.

AI moves fast and so does Lightning! ⚡

Use the skill: https://t.co/6UZLsBi1ds

[Matt Ahlborg @MattAhlborg]

1/ This was pretty amazing... I had a friend tell me that @TheGuySwann mentioned @PPQdotAI in a recent podcast. Instead of tracking down the exact moment, I used PPQ's Podcast Search tool from @PullThatUpJ_AI to find the mention and pull back the audio clip!

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@KaareJohnson The big 3: Bubs, Camellia Grill, Petit Grocery

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

Why doesn’t @OpenAI have an offering like Teams for Claude (seat based pricing) for smaller companies. Feels like a massive gap. Only option to get Codex (without pathetic limits) is usage based pricing. I think this packaging gap affects their market share. cc @thsottiaux @sama

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@milessuter @CashApp friendly bump, helping a friend implement something. tried to reverse engineer using claude/codex, but couldn’t get it to work properly.

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

Is it possible to deep link to the @CashApp payment flow from Cash App balance? thinking about essentially an auto-paste of LN invoice so it’s just a confirmation screen type thing. cc @milessuter

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@milessuter @CashApp oh sick!!! any docs? can also just try to figure it out with codex/claude obviously, but anything readily available would be appreciated.

[Manuel Aráoz @maraoz]

PSA: I now consider *all* of DeFi unsafe.

Coding agents are superhuman at finding vulnerabilities, and smart contract security is too asymmetric: defenders need to fix every bug while attackers need just one exploit to steal funds.

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

This was about the Telegraph, invented in 1837. Sounds familiar though!

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

I was reading last night and this line stuck out:

“Any business that wanted to stay competitive had no choice but to embrace the new technology. The result was an irreversible acceleration in the pace of business life.”

What technology do you think this is referring to?

Reveal later today 🤭

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

Why doesn’t @OpenAI have an offering like Teams for Claude (seat based pricing) for smaller companies. Feels like a massive gap. Only option to get Codex (without pathetic limits) is usage based pricing. I think this packaging gap affects their market share. cc @thsottiaux @sama

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

I was reading last night and this line stuck out:

“Any business that wanted to stay competitive had no choice but to embrace the new technology. The result was an irreversible acceleration in the pace of business life.”

What technology do you think this is referring to?

Reveal later today 🤭

[Hannah Rosenberg⚡ @hmichellerose]

I made a Claude skill for setting up Lightning nodes!

The skill, run-litd, can set up a wide variety of nodes, full node, pruned node, neutrino back-end, build a remote signer, connect to a remote signer, etc. and run on mainnet or signet!

You are guided through choosing the type of node that you need and then the skills builds a properly configured node, that means a config file, a systemd service, etc.

You can find it in this collection of Lightning skills…

https://t.co/jUZ690Kj5O

Give it a try and maybe tell your Lightning newb vibe coding friends!

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@ajambrosino @OpenAIDevs

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

Why doesn’t @OpenAI have an offering like Teams for Claude (seat based pricing) for smaller companies. Feels like a massive gap. Only option to get Codex (without pathetic limits) is usage based pricing. I think this packaging gap affects their market share. cc @thsottiaux @sama

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

@Teknium @CuiMao ^ this is what strong product leadership looks like