What is up you beautiful people!

Time for another edition of This Week in Bitcoin. Little slow but I still got goods for yall. But first. Shoutout to The Stacks Foundation for sponsoring this podcast. If you want to get started building on Stacks and push the mission forward of a user-owned internet with Bitcoin as the base layer. Check the links below.  Learn Clarity: https://start.stacks.org/  Learn more about Stacks: https://stacks.co/  Apply for a grant: https://stacks.org/grants

Now lets jump in and get updated on the latest. Starting with Bitcoin mainchain.Catch the podcast on YouTube, Apple, Spotify or Fountain.

Bitcoin

What's poppin in Bitcoin land

• Best Buy now sells Ledger hardware wallets in all of its US stores. Say what!

• Colorado becomes the first US state to accept officially accept Bitcoin. That means you can pay all state tax bills with your BTC. Pretty amazing to see. Source

Stacks

• Ryder (The world's sexiest hardware wallet) just released a big firmware update, codenamed Thunderbird.This update brings the ability to sign-in to any @Stacks app, $STX Transfers and contract calls, contract Deploys, Sign messages, and introduces Cryptoglyphs. A way to verify that a transaction is the same when you send it, to when the Ryder receives it.

Lightning

• SatsOverflow is creating the Quora+StackOverflow of the Web3 world. This is a platform power by Lightning that rewards users for giving good answers to questions.

• BitcoinFax makes it dead simple to send a one-off fax to someone. Seeing how easy this service is got me thinking about the real potential for Lightning. Lightning fundamentally breaks the idea of subscription models. I wrote a short tweet thread with some thoughts here.

• VoltPay is now on the Android and Apple app stores. VoltPay is a dead simple way to accept Lightning at a brick and mortar store. It's all down via an app. You create products in your catalog, Select them when a customer is ordering, It creates a Lightning invoice and produces a QR code for the customer to scan, then boom you get paid. They also currently take zero fees, So stores get their 3 percent back from Visa/Mastercard.

• Fountain podcasting app released a new update. Version 0.4.9 just hit the app store and brings a new referral system, and a new way to earn sats as a listener. Worth checking out. (Check out the referral code below to earn us both some sats)

RSK

• The RSK <> Ethereum token bridge is back online. It was down while the merge happened. For those that don't know what the token bridge is. It allows you to bridge certain tokens over to RSK in an easy fashion. Many of these are common stablecoins like USDC, USDT and DAI. You get the Rootstock equivalent. USDC becomes rUSDC on Rootstock, and vice-versa.

Liquid

• Blockstream wrote a blog post laying out some more details on XDEX. A decentralized exchange for security tokens listed on Liquid. I find their point to call out "security tokens" interesting. Regulation is obviously coming, some tokens will be securities. But Blockstream is clearly pushing the narrative that all other cryptos are securities. You can read the article here.

That's it for this week's edition.

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