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⚡+🍎 Incoming Strike partnership announcement with Apple?

409 sats \ 19 comments \ @ember 30 Mar 2022 bitcoin freebie

5 days ago Jack Mallets tweeted a picture of him wearing a retro Apple hat, flipping off a Chase ATM - link

Yesterday he tweeted Apple's infamous "Think different" advert - link

Is this the big announcement that he is going to make in Miami? Strike + Apple partnership?

What do you think?

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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 30 Mar 2022

If apple pay/credit cards globally can tap into strike, it can drive a whole flow of capital into lightning, we need more direct on-ramps to lightning

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @nolim1t 30 Mar 2022

Wow that would be awesome if Apple Pay started using lightning

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Gar 30 Mar 2022

Good theory. He is doing a payments panel on April 7 at the conference, then later he has an as-yet untitled talk (directly following Nayib Bukele). Miami Agenda

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xtr 30 Mar 2022

My view is a bit more pessimistic. I don't think Apple implements Lightning support. I think that his recent tweets is more about adopting a Bitcoin standard, flipping off anyone that doesn't have a Bitcoin strategy or doesn't think Bitcoin is important. "Think different" as in don't get stuck in a fiat world, think outside of the box (Bitcoin), etc.

Apple implementing and thus acknowledge Bitcoin would obviously be huge as that would make it easier to onboard a whole lot of people but I simply don't think that happens this year.

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jorj_X_McKie 31 Mar 2022

I have an ex-coworker who had $500 🌽 but couldn’t handle the volatility and sold at zero profit after holding for a few years. He now *hates * Bitcoin (projection obviously) but even more, loves Apple. Bitcoin coming to Apple in any way would make his head 💥💣💥!! I’ve got my 🍿🍿 ready!

9 sats \ 6 replies \ @yoshi 30 Mar 2022

All for a bit of hopium. But there is no way Apple announce anything Bitcoin related for a long time. Maybe it’s to do with the Big Apple? NYC related.

4 sats \ 1 reply \ @decentipod 30 Mar 2022 freebie

Maybe Apple announcing sending USD over LN, since everyone's still "allergic to peanuts." Man, if Cook can stealthly onboard all iphone owners into opening channels and then let them send sats directly too... pure hopium haha

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @patternn 31 Mar 2022 freebie

I lean more towards this opinion

4 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 30 Mar 2022

yeah no way Apple employees would approve of this, lightning is not woke enough

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @nout 31 Mar 2022

No way Apple employees are thinking about Bitcoin 😀

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @freetx 30 Mar 2022

It may in fact be hopium, however an interesting tidbit caught my attention today:

Apple Working to Bring More Financial Services In-House

the news sent shares of CoreCard Corp. and Green Dot Corp. -- two of Apple’s existing partners -- down more than 10% apiece on Wednesday. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., another key partner, slipped as much as 1.2%.

The push would turn the company into a bigger force in financial services, building on a lineup that already includes an Apple-branded credit card, peer-to-peer payments, the Wallet app and a mechanism for merchants to accept credit cards from an iPhone.