bennyblader

founder @ bitcoin bay a 501c3 non-profit focused on education & adoption in tampa, fl (2021-pres)

engineer @ blockspaces building enterprise lightning infrastructure and applications (2022-2024)

My Work

lightning connect : enterprise lightning solution for businesses to transact over lightning and connect to their existing business infrastructure.
bay wallet : a non-custodial lightning node running on the phone with a nostr client. built with ldk. Bitcoin Bay engineering collaborative project. a part of tampa bitdevs.
nostr-react-native : react native hooks for nostr (thanks react-native builds.)
bitcoin bay website the best city in the usa. (everyone stop moving here tho)
bay wallet (old) : a lightning wallet built for the residents of tampa bay, powered by lnbits
bitcoin bay nostr relay : i maintain a nostr relay for bitcoin bay (wss://nostr.bitcoinbay.engineering)
bitcoin bay farms : our food initiative in the tampa area. a storefront that connects tampians to locally sources food
hexynip5 : a cli tool to quickly convert npub's to hex format
bitcoinbay.club nip05 : nip05 verified accounts for bitcoin bay. join the club!
~/creatv : a social media app built on lightning, powered by rn-ldk
cold brew : a social media application powered by hive
auntie lnd : winner of the satsby 2023 hackathon by pleb lab

bitender : an automated lightning beer tap. see it in action!
arc : automated collateral management of derivatives contracts using lightning
benln : a ready-to-go ln node implementation with a gRPC server & CLI for spiral's ldk-node
benlnurl : a non-custodial lnurl server that offers lnurl addresses for multiple users w/ multiple nodes connected.
lnurl-cli : cli toolkit for various lnurl functions
mempool websocket : subscribe to mempool.space websocket and use a callback function when new blocks arrive
btc-tx-search : a rust cli to query bitcoin transactions and addresses
lnd-test-util : Utility to run a regtest lnd process connected to a given bitcoind instance, useful in integration testing environment.
buzz buddy : bitcoin enabled toy (nsfw)

ask steve : llm trained on creator's content, podcasts, posts, etc. to engage their community. fans can engage creators by asking the llm questions about the creator.

Grass Roots Bitcoin Movements : joined the state of bitcoin to talk about my bitcoin story and all the work i do in the tampa area
Grass Roots Bitcoin Movements : joined the state of bitcoin to talk about my bitcoin story and all the work i do in the tampa area
Tampa BitDevs : i run the monthly tampa bitdevs meetups. a deep dive in the technical aspects of bitcoin.
Introduction to the Lightning Network: Micropayments : presesntation at the Florida Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit. (a bit out-dated, oof lightning micropayments 🙃)
Can Web 3.0 save us? : joined Matthew Diemer to talk about soveriegnty on the internet and how we can push for a better internet.
Knoxville Bitcoin w/ Bitcoin Bay : joined the knoxville bitcoin podcast to talk about the bitcoin meetups in tampa bay.
Onboarding a billion users to bitcoin : back when lightning was the answer to L2