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Lightning Leaders

Meet the movers and shakers, the pioneers and changemakers, the builders, disruptors, misfits and veterans of the lightning industry.

45 posts

From skeptic to evangelist in one Lightning strike: Dusan Matuska was running a cafe in Bratislava when lightning struck. One successful transaction later, he sold all his Litecoin, told his mom to do the same, and embraced bitcoin maximalism like a rebel manifesto.

Lightning Leaders

Dusan Matuska: A Bitcoin Maxi’s Origin Story

June 28, 2025

In a land where the peso crumbles, blackouts stretch for 20 hours, and the state watches every transaction, a quiet revolution brews—not with guns, but with sats. Meet the founders of Cuba Bitcoin, a grassroots collective turning economic rubble into digital resilience.

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Cuba Bitcoin’s Revolution: From State Surveillance to Self-Custody

June 27, 2025

An entire continent economically ghosted, not by conflict, or corruption, or lack of ambition – but by the silent tyranny of the blank space where an address should be. Keynan Warsame felt this invisibility snap into focus the moment he moved back to Kenya. Pickspot is the audacious answer.

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PickSpot: Africa’s Bitcoin-Backed Digital Addressing System

June 25, 2025

In a financial ecosystem choked by the inertia of legacy banks and the static of predatory fees, The Bitcoin Company isn’t just cutting through the noise—it’s rewriting the soundtrack.

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Ditch Fiat, Stack Sats: The Bitcoin Company’s Blueprint to Crushing Financial Mediocrity

June 20, 2025

When Joao Almeida talks about Lightning, his facial expressions and tone occasionally can resemble that of a parent describing his son pronouncing his first word or his daughter graduating from college.

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Joao Almeida: Mastermind behind Orqestra, Zap (Strike) and OpenNode

June 18, 2025

While the mainstream world chases headlines and hype, Sergei shows up in local meetups from Sacramento to Cleveland, mentors curious minds, and shares what he knows is true - hoping that, with the right spark, someone will light their own way forward.

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“Educate the Educators”: Why Sergei Is Done Orange-Pilling Normies

byGracious John

May 26, 2025

Enter Bitika, the Kenyan startup turning bitcoin’s complexity into a three-step dance, merging the lightning speed of sats with the trusted rhythm of mobile money.

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Bitika: “Disrupting finance sounds exciting—but the reality is messy”

May 9, 2025

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Grassroots Bitcoin Adoption in Laos—Small Businesses Leading the Way

byGracious John

May 5, 2025

In a continent where currencies crumble and banks exclude, a quiet revolution is brewing—one Satoshi at a time. Meet Bitcoin Kaka: the African grassroots army turning bitcoin into a lifeline for millions.

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Bitcoin Kaka: “Bitcoin isn’t just currency-it’s freedom”

May 5, 2025

Meet Arnold and Emily—bitcoin’s dynamic nomad duo—who turned their rage against broken financial systems and cross-border payment nightmares into Blockhunters, a board game where Satoshi’s whitepaper meets Monopoly’s thrill.

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BlockHunters: Satoshi’s Whitepaper Meets Monopoly’s Thrill

May 3, 2025