Lightning⚡️Ventures Thunderstruck 4.25.24

Happy Thursday to the world’s largest Bitcoin-focused investing network! We have another weekly rundown of all our portfolio company updates. Keep stacking sats and stacking equity in Bitcoin startups - the halving has occurred, so the countdown for the next one has already begun!

🟧 Orange Pill App Head of Marketing Brian De Mint, Knut Svanholm, and Daniel Prince authored a new book titled “Parallel: The Bitcoin Social Layer.” The book positions Bitcoin as more than a device for digital speculation, it is a catalyst for a global paradigm shift. You can get the book here! Orange Pill App has also added QR code functionality! This makes it even easier to connect with other users on Orange Pill App.

🟧 Geyser has announced The 2024 Bitcoin Film Fest Grant! This grant offers 1.5M SATs to support films made about Bitcoin. This grant is also sponsored by Orange Pill App. Geyser has also released Reward suggestions as functionality for the platform! Projects with rewards raise 3.3x more funding. This addition to the platform gives project creators helpful advice on what rewards to create!

🟧 CrowdHealth has celebrated 3 years of disrupting the healthcare industry for the better. Happy birthday to them and the team!

🟧 Scarce.City set a new record high auction with the sale of the historic “Buy Bitcoin” legal pad sign. The sign went for a whopping 16 BTC. #Bullish

🟧 Strike is now live in Europe! The movement into Europe continues making Strike’s vision of giving everyone access to Bitcoin possible. They have also released a merch store and their Genesis Collection is now available.

🟧 Fountain has released version 1.0.12 of their app and it has loads of new features. It includes design and user experience upgrades to the content pages and library and has deployed fixes to some highly-requested bugs.

🟧 AmberApp’s V2 is live and offers new cypher punk animations and lets everyone, from anywhere, continue zapping anyone on Lightning!

🟧 Satoshi announced they were about to submit version 1.0 of the Satoshi app to both the Apple and Android stores. Once the team gets app store approval, they will begin inviting users from the waitlist. The waitlist for the app is open!

🟧 THNDR Games has been selected as a finalist in the SBC Summit First Pitch Competition!

🟧 OrdinalsBot has officially inscribed 8 of the 10 largest files ever on Bitcoin.

🟧 Bringin has released the Pay Lightning Invoice feature for users and dropped a demo for how to use the new functionality.

🟧 Theya posted a demo for how users can quickly set up a multi-sig vault for storing Bitcoin.

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

🟧 Have a breakthrough idea? Submit your project!

🟧 Submissions are accepted until April 29th.

🟧 The Pitch battle is from May 3rd to May 10th, voting to advance to the final round is May 11th, and then the final round is live on stage June 13th!

🟧 The winner will get 1-on-1 consultations with industry leaders and other prizes including a check for €3,000!

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