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Steve Lee is Lead at Spiral, a subsidiary of Block. In this interview, we discuss how Spiral is enabling lightning integration, Block's aim to create an open Bitcoin mining ecosystem, a vision of zero cost decentralized Bitcoin mining, and inspiring open-source Bitcoin projects.

Mar 18, 2022

Creating a Sample Lightning Node with LDK

Lightning Dev Kit gives you a quick start when adding Lightning features to any bitcoin wallet. Valentine Wallace will walk us through all the components you need to create your own lightning node.

Feb 24, 2022

Funding Bitcoin and Open Source Development with Steve Lee | BitDevsLA

Steve states what we are building at Spiral and also briefly touching on the Bitcoin Design Community.

Jan 28, 2022

Connecting Blockchain Data with LDK

This is our first look at the lightning development kit, a library that lets you implement lightning features in any bitcoin wallet. The lightning network is anchored to the bitcoin blockchain so we need a way to interact with the on-chain activity. Jeff walks us through how to get blockchain data from a full node.

Jan 12, 2022

How spiral, Jack Dorsey's rebranded a bitcoin company, is accelerating adoption

The lead of Spiral, the Bitcoin-focused company formerly known as Square Crypto, explains the group’s rebranding, mission and future.

Jan 11, 2022

LDK: Making Lightning More Accessible to Developers - Matt Corallo - TABConf 2021

Matt Corallo gave a talk on making lightning more accessible to developers at TabConf

Jan 11, 2022

Sustain OSS Podcast - Conor Okus & Christoph Ono

Christoph and Conor fill us in about the Bitcoin Design Community, Bitcoin Design grants, and some challenges they had to face in the process of setting this community up

Dec 14, 2021

Citadel Dispatch e48 - bitcoin initiatives by @blocks and @spiralbtc with @moneyball

Bitcoin initiatives by Block and Spiral, LDK, BDK, bitcoin design community, spiral grants, BTrust, open source bitcoin mining, open source low cost hardware wallets, hellobitcoin, tbd, team bitcoin.

Nov 19, 2021

Improving the developer experience with BDK & LDK

Conor gives an overview of how developers can use these SDK's to build Bitcoin wallets faster without worrying about the low level logic.

Oct 8, 2021

WHY ARE WE BULLISH? Haley Berkoe, Tip, Jamie Stuckert, Colin Aulds

Haley tells the world why she is bullish about bitcoin, it's primarily because of the community.

Jul 21, 2021

The ₿ Word with Cathie Wood, Jack Dorsey, & Elon Musk

Steve moderated a panel featuring featuring Cathie Wood, Jack Dorsey, and Elon Musk to talk Bitcoin as a Tool for Economic Empowerment.

Jul 21, 2021

Supporting the Developer Ecosystem

Conor Okus was on a panel with Hong Fang, Beth Kurteson and Adam Jonas at the B Word conference.

Jun 11, 2021

How Bitcoin Can Stimulate The Green Energy Transition.

Join Steve Lee and Aaron van Wirdum from Bitcoin 2021 as they discuss -How Bitcoin Can Stimulate The Green Energy Transition.

Sep 17, 2020

SLP211 Steve Lee - Bitcoin Grants, Design & Crypto Patents (COPA)

What grants have Square Crypto given? How can Bitcoin design be improved? How can Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Patents be protected for the community and permissionless innovation to continue apace?

Apr 28, 2020

LDK for Existing Bitcoin Wallets

Val Wallace breaks down how you can use LDK to create one unified bitcoin wallet at the Advancing Bitcoin conference

Feb 18, 2020

For Square Crypto, the way to Bitcoin mass adoption is open source

Bitcoin Magazine covered how we are supporting mass adoption for Bitcoin via open source software

Feb 7, 2020

BB-110: Arik Sosman (Square Crypto) on LDK and supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem (Russian)

Arik discusses guest work at BitGo and Facebook, the Lightning Development Kit and other Square Crypto projects, as well as the prospects for decentralized money.

Jan 30, 2020

SLP144 Steve Lee - Square Crypto and Supporting Bitcoin Development

Steve talks about how he got into Bitcoin, and Square Crypto's focus on supporting Bitcoin and Lightning open source development.

Jan 27, 2020

Tales from the Crypt #131: Matt Corallo + Valentine Wallace

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace to talk all things Square Crypto and LDK