Building on Bitcoin: A Guide to Bitcoin Miami 2023 🏝️

Ahead of the much-anticipated event tomorrow, Trust Machines published an in-depth guide for all the attendees! 📝

ℹ️ The annual conference, which is the largest Bitcoin conference in the world, will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Center venue from May 18 to 20 and will involve over 150 speakers, 2,000 companies, and over 250 sponsors!

Catch the full guide here ☚

Visit b.tc/conference to learn more! 🚀

We'll see you there! 👋

Ordinals Alley: Introducing the Open Call Artists 🎨

Gamma.io partnered with Xverse and organized an open call for artists to share their backgrounds and ideas, giving them a chance to have their work showcased at the event and brought to a global audience 🖌️

Meet the six artists who made the cut! 🖼️

ICYMI: Stacks Open Internet Foundation shared their OKRs for Q2 of 2023 🎯

TL;DR
⭐ Resourcing and alignment on sBTC
⭐ Realigning messaging around Stacks as a Bitcoin Layer
⭐ Developer education and experience

Read the full article here 👈

➕ Don't miss the full recap of Q1 HERE 🚀

Visit stacks.org to learn more 💟

Kenny Rogers, Developer Advocate from the Stacks Foundation, discussing the Stacks Nakamoto Release 🚀

✅ Faster block times for a better user experience
✅ Leveraging 100% #Bitcoin security budget

Watch the full clip below 🎥

Learn more about the Stacks Nakamoto release & sBTC 👈

Stacks Open Internet Foundation is now funding up to 12 BTC + 250k STX 🚀

ℹ️ Critical Bounties are RFP-style grants that support the development of a user-owned & open-source internet anchored in Bitcoin technology

Here are some of the open bounties 🔻
⭐ sBTC Protocol | Testing Team
⭐ Stacks Protocol | Liquid STX
⭐ Bitcoin on Stacks | Improvements
⭐ Stacks & Clarity | Improvements

Explore multiple funding opportunities ☚

💥 JUST IN: STX listed on Bithumb KRW market.

Exchange Announcement:
https://cafe.bithumb.com/view/board-contents/1643827

Time for another weekly SBTC update and a quick recap of Bitcoin Miami 2023 🚀

Andre Serrano, Product and Partnerships lead at sBTC, breaks down the key takeaways from the inaugural Bitcoin Builders Conference 👇
⭐ Ordinals are accelerating Bitcoin
⭐ BRC-20s are here to stay
⭐ ZK rollups are coming to Bitcoin
⭐ Trustless Two-Way Pegs are the holy grail
⭐ Stacks is well positioned

We're echoing the resounding sentiment we've been hearing the past week, #Bitcoin builders' culture is back 🧡

Shoutout to all the supporters, builders, and community members! It was great seeing everyone! 💜

Read more HERE 👈

Colored Coins. What are they? 🤔

Trust Machines recently published an article breaking down the basics of Colored Coins and how they relate to Bitcoin 📖

Learn 👇
✐ The History of Colored Coins
✐ How Do Colored Coins Work
✐ Use Cases for Colored Coins
✐ And more

Read it HERE 👈

Stacking: Last Call For Cycle 60
⏰ Cycle 60 starts at Bitcoin Block 791,950 (Current Bitcoin Block mined: 791,913)

There's not much time left before Stacking cycle 60 starts. Lock your Stacks with your preferred pool to earn Bitcoin rewards.

Pick your Stacking provider 👇

Have you heard of BRC-20? Curious to know how it affects Bitcoin? 💭

ℹ️ BRC-20 tokens could be described as a new token standard on the Bitcoin blockchain and as a meme. It was created in March of 2023 by a pseudonymous on-chain analyst named Domo.

Trust Machines recently published an article explaining the BRC-20 token standard and how it could change the Bitcoin ecosystem ✍️

Discover the following ⤵️
⭐ Ordi: The first BRC-20 token
⭐ Types of BRC-20 transactions and wallet capabilities
⭐ The long-term vision for BRC-20
⭐ Differences from Ethereum’s ERC-20
⭐ Token Economics
⭐ And much more

Read the full article HERE 👇

State of Stacks Q1 2023 Report by Messari
Messari released its State of Stacks report 🚀

Key Insights
⭐️ Average daily transactions and average daily active addresses increased 34% and 35% QoQ
⭐️ Ordinals and Inscriptions proved that the Bitcoin ecosystem has a serious demand for NFTs, fungible tokens, and DeFi. Stacks is perfectly positioned to meet that demand, with its added functionality and deep Bitcoin compatibility.
⭐️ Stacks 2.1 enabled trust-minimized bridging to Bitcoin and decentralized mining pools. Bitcoin assets bridged to Stacks such as sBTC and sOrdinals can be incorporated into sophisticated applications that wouldn’t be possible on Bitcoin.

Full report can be found here 👇

ICYMI: You can now transfer Native BRC-20 with your Hiro Wallet 🚀

You only need a few clicks, and you can send BRC-20 tokens 💱

Here's how it works⤵️
🌟 To start, click "Send" on the home screen, select a BRC-20 token
🌟 Select a fee level to pay for the creation of a "transfer" inscription
🌟 Review and submit your inscription request
🌟 Follow the status of your new transfer inscription request

🚨 Take advantage of the new feature and send BRC-20 tokens more easily between wallets or peg them into BRC-20 marketplaces like ALEX for trading on Bitcoin L2s! 🚨

Get your Hiro wallet today! 💳

ICYMI: An exciting Stacks Snacks update was published over a week ago 🚨

ℹ️ Stacks Snacks is a bite-sized weekly 'best-of' newsletter covering the Stacks Ecosystem. Brought to you by the Communications Working Group.

Highlights ⏬
⭐ alexGo.btc introduces permissionless listings for BRC-20 tokens
⭐ Stacks reached $10B in cumulative trading volume & 65,000 deployed smart contracts
⭐ Stacks Open Internet Foundation puts up 12 BTC & 250k STX for key infrastructure
⭐ Bithumb (#2 exchange in Korea) adds STX
⭐ Gamma.io debuts Ordinals alley at Ordinals conference ‘23
⭐ And so much more!

Read more hits from that week's issue 🗞️

👉 Subscribe and get the best of the best news weekly 👈

Don't miss the next Virtual Building on Bitcoin event! 🚀

Join us for a deep dive into the tech, culture, and community that’s giving Bitcoin new life. 👋

During the summer edition of Building on Bitcoin, you'll hear about 👇
💟 Scaling Bitcoin with Layer 2s and beyond
💟 New innovations developing from Ordinals
💟 What developers are building on Bitcoin through the Stacks sBTC Pitch Competition
💟 Where investors are looking to put their money within the oldest crypto community

More information at the event's official website ℹ️

Register HERE ✍️

Introducing: OrdiGallery 📣

Powered by Stacks Parrots, this innovation allows you to experience Bitcoin Art on a whole new level! 🚀

Check it out HERE 👈

Flex your Ordinals today! 🖼️

From the Forum: Stacks Blockchain Core Development Update (June 2023)


ℹ️ This provides a clear look at the technical priorities for the next several months.

The core developers and technical contributors have organized around the following key areas to invest in for the health and robustness of the Stacks blockchain ⤵️

✅ Improving testing infrastructure, hardening, and refactoring
✅ Orphan blocks
✅ Bitcoin MEV
✅ sBTC (which includes the Stacks blockchain performance and security updates covered in the Nakamoto whitepaper)
✅ Subnets

Read more HERE 🗒️

🚨 You have one more day! 🚨

Become one of the next Bitcoin startups by joining the Startup Lab BootCamp!

🚀 Join the FIRST all-Bitcoin Startup Pre-Accelerator
🚀 The 1st Pre-accelerator on Web3 Bitcoin.
🚀 Application Deadline: June 10, 2023

ℹ️ The rigorous program is designed for those of you who desire to breakthrough your limits and develop champion abilities to build an investment-worthy startup on Bitcoin!

👉 Apply today 👈

Market Potential of sBTC 📈

Tune in and hear from Philip De Smedt of Arkadiko Finance as he discusses the market potential of sBTC 🎙️

"I believe that we can at least, you know, like over the next 5 to 10 years, at the very least, 10X the amount of Bitcoin in existence that we can make programmable..." Philip 💭

Watch the video below 📺

Learn more HERE 👈

Calling all Hungry Artists 📣

Time to #UnlockYourDreams 🔮

The Mintery joined forces with HungryArtist aka Mary Lai and Gamma.io to launch a 6-month Bitcoin-only NFT Gallery at an exclusive location. 🖼️

You'll have the opportunity to ⤵️
⭐ Have your artwork minted & displayed in the iconic gallery.
⭐ Have your artwork seen by collectors, creators, art connoisseurs & media at an exclusive VIP event.
⭐ Be featured on the homepage of Gamma marketplace.

Want to see your work featured? Join HERE ⬅️

Learn what lies ahead and the current state of alexGo.btc from one of the founders herself, Dr. Chiente Hsu 💱

"I think most people would want to use it (sBTC) to manage their BTC risk" - Dr. Chiente Hsu

Watch the video below 📺

Learn more about the sBTC update mentioned in the video 👈

ICYMI: BitFlow Finance Went Live On Mainnet! 🚀

Surfs Up, Bitcoiners! Are you ready to ride the wave of secure, transparent, and decentralized way of trading? 🏄‍♂️

ℹ️ Bitflow is a Decentralized Exchange for Bitcoiners where you can trade and earn with Bitcoin without malicious middlemen.

Learn more here 🌐

Join their Discord 📟