Adam Vandover

Playing Music, Software Engineering and Running Around.

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

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_official 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 @RipioApp in USDC to @Pouch_PH in the Philippines in Philippines peso;

3) From Ghana with @Bitnob_official in BTC (perf not optimized yet) to @Pouch_PH 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!

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@Marriott do you all have a corporate phone number? Your website is terrible and the guest services on site aren't willing to help.

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@revconf 👋

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@profgalloway Don’t make this mistake.

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@satsie It depends on the bananas to sneeze ratio.

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@Cristiano @binance @josibake finally! What you’ve been waiting your entire life for!

[Norfolk BitDevs @NorfolkBitDevs]

It’s here, our first Norfolk BitDevs meetup! 💻 Bitcoin Core Full Node Setup Party 🎉 https://t.co/pWmpAkKf0t #Meetup #Norfolk via @Meetup

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@josibake @Mike_Pence Yeah, isn't that how this twitter thing works?

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@josibake why are you being like the @Mike_Pence of Bitcoin?

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@vnprc It kind of looks like the @Yelp logo 🤔

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@vnprc I kind of love Safari.

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@bdkjones @verge It makes even less sense on mobile.

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@AppleMusic please assume that for curated playlists everybody wants to opt-out of hearing @puddleofmudd. 🙏🏻🎶😢

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@bheater there's a typo on this article (Zime -> Zume). https://t.co/NZCve2JzZB

[Randy Bryce @IronStache]

.@realDonaldTrump is refusing to release 101,921 pages of Brett Kavanaugh’s White House records. This is unprecedented.

Before the Senate votes on giving this man a lifetime appointment, we deserve to see every single one of these documents.
https://t.co/a4L1gsjr1t

[Adam Vandover @adam2k]

@westelm I ordered a couch from you and it's 5 weeks late. Customer support stopped responding to my emails. What's going on?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Disney makes $9 billion in profits, gives its CEO over $400 million and yet Disneyland workers can't afford to put a roof over their heads.

[Randy Bryce @IronStache]

Puerto Rico is still without power.
Puerto Rico is still without accessible water.
Puerto Rico is still in pain.

It’s been 9 months. @realDonaldTrump when are you going to help these Americans?
https://t.co/oOAvgJrZwX

[Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome]

Calling Trump “Commander of Cheese” is the first factually accurate thing Kellyanne Conway's ever said.