VP of Product @lightning | previously @google | @Wharton @PennEngEntrep | fix the money. fix the world.
Joined May 2009
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1/7: Some personal news: I'm excited to share that I've accepted and started my dream job as Product Growth Lead @lightning where I'll be working tirelessly with the rest of the incredible team to help empower developers and entrepreneurs to bring #Bitcoin to billions ⚡️
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Jun 13
Louisiana is its own country. Parishes instead of counties, the only state with a civil code thanks to Napoleon, streets that feel simultaneously more Old World and more Caribbean than anywhere else in America. Old people in the backwoods who speak French. Like truly alien
Jun 12
The vibes are insane. Driving through the great state of Louisiana on our way to New Orleans. It’s crazy how diverse this country is, every day the scenery looks different.
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Michael Levin⚡️ retweeted
Jun 11
Announcing LND v0.21: Grown Up, Sped Up, Locked Down 🌱
The 21st release lands on the number every bitcoiner knows 🟠
Onion messaging, private message relay without revealing sender or route 🧅
Simple taproot channels hit production for on-chain privacy 🌳
Native SQL and better sync for faster queries and startup ⏩
Read more and upgrade today: lightning.engineering/posts/…
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Jun 11
I use @mattpocockuk skills often. They’re remarkably helpful. So, I knew I’d love /teach but it still feels game changing. I’ve said countless times that with these LLMs you can learn anything you want. With /teach, that becomes a more seamless reality. github.com/mattpocock/skills…
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cheat code: stack sats for onboarding friends onto the best bitcoin exchange @River
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Jun 10
this is really well done. deep dive is an understatement. fascinating breakdown of the business and supply chain dynamics 🤖👀
Jun 8
We just published a deep dive on why Unitree is going to dominate global robotics. Timing could not be better. (2/2)
newsletter.semianalysis.com/…
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Michael Levin⚡️ retweeted
Jun 5
Buying Bitcoin today is front running the forced diversification of a completely AI saturated equity market.
With not one, not two, but three massive inclusion of 5 Trillion dollars of equity value into the index, diversification requires venturing out on the risk curve.
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A @NousResearch Hermes agent and an @openclaw agent, both running @grok as their brain, just paid each other in real Bitcoin over L402 on @lightning Network.
Hermes, on the new Hermes Desktop app, posted a 20-sat bounty for a research summary on the latest Lightning Network, Bitcoin, L402, and agentic payments news.
OpenClaw discovered the bounty on its own, did the actual research, and submitted a complete summary with sources. It competed against other autonomous agents and won on merit. Hermes released 20 sats over Lightning.
No human moved a single sat.
Two different agent frameworks. One brain: grok. Real autonomous work paid in real Bitcoin, settled over L402 on Lightning Network.
This is the agentic economy.
@lightningmodeAI
Two Hermes AI gents just completed a full L402 economic cycle with real Bitcoin on Lightning Network.
No human moved a single sat.
1. Agent 1 posted a bounty: "Bitcoin Block Explorer API with L402 support" for 20 sats
2. Agent 2 found the bounty, researched a solution, and submitted a proposal
3. Agent 1 reviewed all proposals, chose the best one, and accepted
4. 20 sats transferred from escrow to Agent 2. Instantly. On mainnet.
Autonomous AI agents earning, spending, and hiring each other with real Bitcoin. No banks. No credit cards. Just Lightning Network.
This is what agentic circular economies look like.
Hermes agents running Qwen 3.5 and Minimax-M 2.7 via OpenRouter.
Next up: a deep dive into the L402 protocol that makes machine-to-machine payments possible.
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Michael Levin⚡️ retweeted
Jun 2
Our latest video walks you through our new Claude skill for setting up a Lightning node.
Get started with building on bitcoin for agentic (and human) payments in a matter of minutes.
AI moves fast and so does Lightning! ⚡
Use the skill: github.com/lightninglabs/lig…
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Michael Levin⚡️ retweeted
May 30
1/ This was pretty amazing... I had a friend tell me that @TheGuySwann mentioned @PPQdotAI in a recent podcast. Instead of tracking down the exact moment, I used PPQ's Podcast Search tool from @PullThatUpJ_AI to find the mention and pull back the audio clip!
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May 22
Why doesn’t @OpenAI have an offering like Teams for Claude (seat based pricing) for smaller companies. Feels like a massive gap. Only option to get Codex (without pathetic limits) is usage based pricing. I think this packaging gap affects their market share. cc @thsottiaux @sama
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PSA: I now consider *all* of DeFi unsafe.
Coding agents are superhuman at finding vulnerabilities, and smart contract security is too asymmetric: defenders need to fix every bug while attackers need just one exploit to steal funds.
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May 26
This was about the Telegraph, invented in 1837. Sounds familiar though!
May 23
I was reading last night and this line stuck out:
“Any business that wanted to stay competitive had no choice but to embrace the new technology. The result was an irreversible acceleration in the pace of business life.”
What technology do you think this is referring to?
Reveal later today 🤭
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Michael Levin⚡️ retweeted
May 22
Why doesn’t @OpenAI have an offering like Teams for Claude (seat based pricing) for smaller companies. Feels like a massive gap. Only option to get Codex (without pathetic limits) is usage based pricing. I think this packaging gap affects their market share. cc @thsottiaux @sama
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May 23
I was reading last night and this line stuck out:
“Any business that wanted to stay competitive had no choice but to embrace the new technology. The result was an irreversible acceleration in the pace of business life.”
What technology do you think this is referring to?
Reveal later today 🤭
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Michael Levin⚡️ retweeted
May 22
I made a Claude skill for setting up Lightning nodes!
The skill, run-litd, can set up a wide variety of nodes, full node, pruned node, neutrino back-end, build a remote signer, connect to a remote signer, etc. and run on mainnet or signet!
You are guided through choosing the type of node that you need and then the skills builds a properly configured node, that means a config file, a systemd service, etc.
You can find it in this collection of Lightning skills…
github.com/Liongrass/lightni…
Give it a try and maybe tell your Lightning newb vibe coding friends!
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Why doesn’t @OpenAI have an offering like Teams for Claude (seat based pricing) for smaller companies. Feels like a massive gap. Only option to get Codex (without pathetic limits) is usage based pricing. I think this packaging gap affects their market share. cc @thsottiaux @sama
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May 21
Is it possible to deep link to the @CashApp payment flow from Cash App balance? thinking about essentially an auto-paste of LN invoice so it’s just a confirmation screen type thing. cc @milessuter
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