Lightning⚡️Ventures Thunderstruck 4.11.24

All the happs from the Lightning⚡️Ventures gang

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Tristan Hillerich
April 11, 2024

Happy Thursday to the world’s largest Bitcoin-focused investing network! Our portfolio companies are constantly updating and upgrading, and we have another weekly rundown of them all! Keep stacking sats and stacking equity in Bitcoin startups. The Halving is rapidly approaching!

🚨Live deals🚨 are currently running for AmberApp, Bringin, and LNbits. More information is below.⚡️ If you need to reach us about anything or everything, reply to this email, and we gotchyooo dog.

Portfolio News n’ Stuff!

Product Updates🔐

Bold Bitcoin has announced Joshua Preston as their new COO. Joshua was previously COO at Unchained, compliance lead at Block, and a former federal financial regulator.

AmberApp has released v2 of their app!

Bringin has a plugin on BTCpayServer that allows every business to accept payments from anywhere in the world, receive the payments instantly, not pay a ~3% fee to intermediaries, not lose revenue due to chargeback, and use the revenue to pay bills. They have also posted a demo of what this plugin can do!

Wavlake artists will now be able to use their own Lightning Address to receive earnings from their fans. Listening to a track and vibe with it? Sending the artist a tip is now possible!

Orange Pill App posted a demo for how users can put their Orange Pill App profile link into their X bios and get zapped Sats in less than 10 seconds.

OrdinalsBot now has support for Runes live on the OrdinalsBot Testnet. Runes is a new fungible token protocol that uses Bitcoin’s UTXO model, enabling etching, minting, and transferring Bitcoin native digital commodities.

Company Accomplishments✅

Relai frequently finds themselves in this newsletter section because they are CRUSHING it! This week, the team at Relai won prizes in 2 categories on Product Hunt. They won product of the day, week, and month in the categories of Web3 and FinTech. The team is on track to become Product of the Year in both categories! They have also celebrated 360,000 mobile downloads!

Orange Pill App is on track to hit 10,000 members by next week’s Halving. As of April 8th, they stood at 9,852 members!

In the News📰

JAN3 and Samson Mow have received a Tether Waiver from the PODCONF Compliance Committee. This waiver allows JAN3 to facilitate the use of Tether without being considered non-compliant with the committee’s stablecoin policy. This waiver allows members of the JAN3 team to remain eligible to participate in PODCONF-approved events and activities.

Scarce.City is hosting a sale for Satoshi’s Reserve Bottles from Peony Lane Wine. It is a collection of the first 21 bottles of wine, out of a 210-bottle limited release, that only Bitcoin can buy.

Yo! What’s the deal?

Amber is the best and only app for DCA’ing in Australia and they have Lightning integration coming soon! Amber is also expanding outside the country and has many other exciting products in the pipeline, such as AmberNode, AmberConcierge, AmberVault, and TribeKey. 

View the deal here.

Bringin is a payments app that lets you instantly spend Bitcoin from any Bitcoin wallet, even at places that don't accept BTC. Users create a one-time virtual debit card through Lightning invoice payments. They can also convert Bitcoin into Euros from their wallets to their bank accounts and make instant payments.

Fun Fact!

LNBits also owns NOSTR.com

LNbits aims to serve as the “WordPress for money.” LNbits is used by many builders and companies that do “Bitcoin stuff.”

Here’s your chance to invest in what we believe is one of the most influential companies in advancing Bitcoin development. Co-founded by legendary developer Ben Arc with Fiatjaf, LNbits is a multi-user and account system for the Lightning Network. Built into an easy-to-manage platform, it features a variety of useful extensions that can be combined for a wide range of custom use cases.

Hanging IRL in 2024!

Nashville for Bitcoin2024 is going to be crazy! Wavlake Show/Satoshi Rockamoto announcement coming soon

Join us at Bitcoin Prague! Check out the Pitch Contest and Lightning Ventures Rockamoto Party!