Mass adoption of Bitcoin requires use cases that will come from people of different skillsets, perspectives, and team formations. We are creating a community space for makers to learn about and experiment with bitcoin and lightning, together. Our mission is to support the evolution of bitcoin as the internet’s native currency by fostering an ecosystem that allows the rapid, accessible, and fun creation of applications that apply the technology. How are we doing it? Community: For some key phases bolt.fun is already reaching the top of search results (try searching for keysend, or lnurl). There is a lack of tutorials for creating bitcoin applications that cannot be filled by a couple of writers. We want to encourage more original user generated content that would supplement our hackathons and the wider ecosystem. More specifically we're building our community platform with Bounties, Stories, and a Hackathon Directory. Product Directory: Small amounts of money go a long way in bitcoin, but the progress of the projects, and growth of the maker is quite opaue. Our directory not only serves as a place to discover lightning applications but also supports the maker providing updates in the form of standup reporting. Maker Profiles: During our first #ShocktheWeb⚡️ hackathon, we observed the diffiulty for participants to form teams with each other as they had no context of who the other does, what types of problems they're interested in working on. Makers can show their activity, products + teams, skills, badges, stories, and more. Resources: Providing design, development, and educational resources for makers to build lightning enabled products. Features include Courses, Guides, UI Kits, + more.

What is staking? With PoS, we have validators sending a special type of transaction across the network, which gets locked into a deposit (otherwise known as validator pool) and that’s called “staking”. With Proof of Stake (PoS) we have “Validators” – “Forging”, instead of "Miners" – "Mining". There are no computational cycles running through massive amounts of math problems trying to solve a problem like PoW. Questions What is necessary to be comunicated in order incentivise participatants? What is the minimum viable staking user flow/features?