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Here we go again!! Excited to announce Cohort 4 of the BOB Buidlers Residency program. The theme for this Cohort is ‘Usability’, which ranges from UX/UI designers to projects that aim to make #Bitcoin more user friendly, especially for those in the Global South. Before we get to the Residents, huge thanks go out to Tokyo Bitcoin Base (@Tokyo Bitcoin Base) for co-sponsoring Cohort 4. The initiative and efforts shown by Teruko (@Teruko) there were truly remarkable. So glad we could make this first-of-its-kind #Bitcoin only collaboration happen. Now for the Residents and Projects: there’re 2 Projects and 2 Resident Designers in this Cohort. Each Project aims to make specific features of Bitcoin (like privacy and everyday payments) easier to use. They will be supported by experienced and proven Resident Designers. Cohort 4’s Resident Projects: 1) User-friendly Silent Payments Wallet by @theanmolsharma_ on X (github.com/theanmolsharma) 2) Bounty for Openpleb QR-to-Lightning payments platform implementations (github.com/gandlafbtc/open-pleb). This project was ideated by Gandlaf (@gandlaf21), who was also a Cohort 1 Resident. Cohort 4’s Resident Designers: X) Veronika or V (@Veronika ) an experienced designer with active contributions to @bitshala, amongst others. Y) Adeyemi Matthew (@Iyanu) another experienced designer who contributed to #StratumV2 in 2024 and whose team took third place in the SKBD wallet hackathon in 2025. Welcome to Cohort 4 everyone! Look forward to another great one.

Last Friday (Aug 8), Meetup 1 of Grassroots Lightning Month kicked off to a roaring start. @Naphat09 from #WelB talked about his journey of orange-pilling small merchants in Thailand and onboarding them onto the Lightning network. Here are some images from the meetup, including all the things you can buy with Lightning in Thailand. Products and services range from coffee, food, homemade ghee to barbershop, car wash, books, clothing and Muay Thai lessons/workouts. If this was any indication, can’t wait for the Aug 22nd double-feature event! View quoted note →

August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space BKK. 3 events have been posted in Meetup per links below. Aug 8 - Meetup 1 with My from WelB. He’ll talk about onboarding small merchants to Lightning, especially in eastern Bangkok. Aug 22 - Meetup 2 with Mick, who’s been orange pilling any merchant with a pulse in Huay Pheung district, Kalasin province. Also Aug 22 - the augural outdoors Lightning Free Market, where small merchants can come sell their food, beverages and other stuff on the front lawn of BOB Space. They will all accept Lightning payments.

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Grassroots Lightning Month - Meetup 1, Fri, Aug 8, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space. This month, we hear from local Bitcoiners who have been promoting Grassroots Lightning adop...

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Grassroots Lightning Month - Meetup 2, Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space. This month, we hear from local Bitcoiners who have been promoting Grassroots Lightning adop...

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Inaugural outdoors Lightning Free Market at BOB Space, Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup

August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space. In addition to hearing from great local Bitcoiners who have been promoting Grassroots Light...

The penlock.io wheel created by an open source contributor who visited us. It’s an offline tool to generate a seed phrase - and then split that into 3 parts; only 2 of which are required to recover the seed. Like an analog multi-sig for your seed phrase. Pretty neat stuff!

We had fun at the #BitcoinPizzaDay meetup last night at our new location. Thanks to @YakiHonne for sponsoring one of the pizzas (it went quick!) And special shoutout to @ClearMined for doing a vibe coding demo. It was kickass and we were definitely vibing. And ofc thanks to all the regular and new members who came by to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this historic day for Bitcoin.

Thrilled to announce 2 more meetups to wrap up April 2025: - Apr 17th: Special Freedom Edition w/ Win from Human Rights Foundation (HRF). - Apr 25th: Nostr Month session 2 w/ @nickydev of @Wherostr, Thailand’s home-grown Nostr client. Details in Meetup links:

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BOB Space Songkran Meetup - Special Freedom Edition , Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 7:30 PM | Meetup

Due to a special request, #BOBSpace is holding a post-Songkran meetup on Thursday (Apr 17th) evening at 7:30 pm. This Special Freedom Edition meetu...

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BOB Space "Nostr Month" - Meetup 2, Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We resume Nostr Month in April 2025 at #BOBSpace with a very special guest, NickyDev of #Wherostr, Thailand's home-grown #Nostr client. This month'...