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

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The Story Of PPQ.ai: Privacy-First, Lightning-Enabled AI

July 28, 2025

When Felipe Servin watched millions in emerging markets trapped between hyperlocal WhatsApp trust and broken financial rails – juggling black-market rates and collapsing currencies – a nuclear idea took shape: What if sending bitcoin flowed like a chat? No new apps.

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Felipe Servin: “Build for humans, not headlines”

July 21, 2025

Out of that fiery collapse rose The Bitcoin Way: a battle-tested blueprint for true sovereignty where self-custody keys unlock borders, cybersecurity armor deflects state overreach, and ironclad inheritance plans defy systemic failure.

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The Bitcoin Way: Path to True Sovereignty

July 16, 2025

What if discovery wasn’t about anonymous crowds, but trusted tribes? That moment birthed Satlantis—a social atlas for the sovereign age.

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Tribe Over Algorithm: How Satlantis Rewires Travel for Bitcoin Nomads

July 14, 2025

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.

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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