Our services are already available pretty much anywhere. We are a non-custodial solution. Which means we facilitate peer-to-peer payments and not for a single second do we hold user funds. So regulations are not a problem (at least at this stage). We'll see how things evolve. Basically you can already use Flash in India if you want! Feel free to reach out to us, we can help you get onboarded!

We will soon be addind support for more currencies (visually, we only use lightning of course) to help user onboarding. We want to make payments easy and to the same standard as companies like Stripe. The difference is that since we're non-custodial, you can get started and monetize in 2 min, literally. No need for KYC or anything like this

Thanks for reading! Happy to answer whatever question I can :D

Finally someone with some sense.

Thanks for that! Happy you enjoyed my previous work! I think storytelling is an amazing tool for passing messages across and orange-pilling at scale. The next step is payment solutions that are as simple as in the fiat world to bring people into the world of self-custodial, peer-to-peer, KYC-free payments. That's the purpose of Flash. A great personal story and a big reason for starting Flash was the custody of my ad revenue held by YouTube for months, while all I wanted was to be paid!

Regarding a next film, I answered this to another question here :) Yes: The Fight for the US Dollar: https://youtu.be/SHXnHmKEQsE?si=lchwq2U7f54AP2bR Have been super busy with Flash, but I'm lucky to have people part of the production that are super passionate and want it to be finished. We have all the interviews, a first very basic version and the script. So we're going to move on this again. We want it to be released in 2025!

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Also, make sure to code with a tool like ChatGPT - will make the learning process more pleasant and definitely will speed up your work!

Good luck and reach out if you need any help!

Thanks! We're excited to have you test it, and happy to help!

Hope this answers it all! :D

User experience is a tough nut to crack. Because you need to balance ease of use and setup with self-custody. Custodial solutions are easier of course, but I don't think it's really worth it. For self-custodial use-cases then it gets tricky. Channel managemnet, liquidity management, etc. I do think we're at a turning point, though. Where smarter developers than me have solved a lot of these tricky points and make it easier for developers like me to build and focus on user experience. We're still figuring out a bunch of these issues ourselves at Flash, but the next releases we make will be great in terms of user experience and app connectivity. It's just a few weeks away now!

Haha! I love my steaks, you have no idea! I eat some multiple times a week. And it depends who makes them! At a so-so restaurant I'll often ask for rare, because they'll likely overcook them. At better ones medium-rare is fine. I rarely trust them to make them as good as I do. I try to keep them medium rare when I cook. I have a whole process (like most people I suppose) and know how to get them just right for my taste!

Hey Miranda, it's nice to meet you!

KYC indeed sucks. Both for you and for your users depending on what your platform also does. Happy to help you understand this better for your business and see if maybe we already some tools that can help at Flash. If not, happy to try to find a solution together :) Please write an email to me directly and we can take it from there: pierre.corbin@paywithflash.com

I love going to the movies. I feel like a little kid then, every time! And I had a period of going at least once a week. Recently, though, this has changed. First of all I feel like there aren't a lot of movies that are worth going to the movies.. So I'm more of a home watcher.

Favorite movie... It's hard to say, but I really grew up with a passion for UK gangster films: lock stock and two smoking barrels, layer cake, snatch, etc. Many of my friends hate me because I love rewatching films, and I always like most films. "Yeah, but the lightning was perfect" kind of movie geek. There was no way I wouldn't get into film with this attitude.

The travel rule towards self-custody sucks. And the fact it's coming into the EU and UK is horrible. But we'll manage to get around this. I think it'll force builders to get more into the 2 core principles: self-custody and peer-to-peer. At Flash, we're about to change the game for business payments. We already never tough user funds, but as soon as our self-custodial wallet is live, we'll really be able to provide enterprise quality payment experiences, that are fully peer-to-peer and self-custodial. This is what drives me forward. Because building anything that doesn't follow these 2 standards is just not worth it. We're reaching the stage in bitcoin development tech that it is becoming easier to build such things. And it's the way forward for the internet. But all the businesses or exchanges relying on custody, they better buckle up, because I think it's going to be a touch blow for them in the short term.

That's a hard one to say tbh. Many different people for many different reasons and different expertise.

Pivot pivot pivot. You hear this a lot, be open to change and questioning yourself. But when it's the week of the first release to the world, and then on the day before, you decide with your co-founder to change gears completely because it's too niche, and the work you did in the last 6 months is not good enough... It's tough. But that's how startups work, so you go with it and it somehow works out.

The next thing is resilience. Bootstrapping is tough, we went the route of raising money. And if you doubt for a second, if you lose vision, if you stop pushing, sending reminders, to the point where you feel like you're annoying everyone, I think you won't make. Persistence is key.

Well, Q1 is going to be about stabilising our current tools and the release of our self-custodial wallet. I can't wait for this already, as it will be a completely new type of wallet, and the best integrated for earning through Flash and for subscriptions.

We have new groundbreaking things planned following Q2 for which we already have build Proof of Concepts. Too early to talk about in details but it's about unlocking true pay per click experiences, via automated micro transactions in full self-custody.

Yes: The Fight for the US Dollar: https://youtu.be/SHXnHmKEQsE?si=lchwq2U7f54AP2bR

Have been super busy with Flash, but I'm lucky to have people part of the production that are super passionate and want it to be finished. We have all the interviews, a first very basic version and the script. So we're going to move on this again. We want it to be released in 2025!

Well, now that we raised money, the difficult part is patience. Of course now we're no longer building Proof of Concepts that just work. Now it has to be production ready. And the whole building cycle has changed, and has slowed down. It makes it much more difficult, especially when there are partnerships and people waiting for us to finish. Always feels like we're lagging behind the demand and it really gives FOMO as it feels like opportunities are slipping away. But they rarely are. Other businesses are also slow ;) No stress, always take a breather, as long as we move forward every day, we're winning.

I just live in Poland. I'm French and Spanish. Lived in Poland most of my life, though. There is a nice meetup, but the organiser is always travelling so they happen too sporadically. The bitcoin scene otherwise is pretty small. A lot of crypto stuff instead. But we try to change this. I co-founded the Bitcoin FilmFest, and it happens every year in Warsaw. Next edition will be May 23-25. You should come! Last year's was amazing, and the biggest halving celebration in the world!

I have to admit I listen very little to bitcoin podcasts nowadays... I used to listen to What bitcoin did a lot. It really got me into bitcoin, and was a great inspiration for my documentary. So there were plenty of ideas from there. But now, I spend all day on bitcoin topics already for work, I tend to listen to audiobooks or business/product focused podcasts

The technical aspects of bitcoin, and the lack of easy tools. I think this will all change tbh, but the truth is that we are constantly redirecting users outside of our app for a wallet, an then connecting it to Flash. It's great, but a new concept in Bitcoin with little compatible wallets. I think this will change soon, though. We will soon release our wallet, it will have amazing features and will be super simple, working both on mobile and on desktop, automatically, no hassle, full self-custody. It's gonna be a special one

I do. And she's the best. Super supportive, always. I always say it: without her, Flash wouldn't exist. It's great to build a business, but you need a partner that can accept the dedication you have to something other than her, but that will also help with ideas and push you to do things you're naturally not comfortable doing.

That the crypto crowd is better at building than bitcoiners.

And that's just to my point about user experience, dev experience, etc. Somehow they get it right. I think crypto is just better at building something, making it fun and sticking around. On the other side, bitcoin devs are great at building amazing tech, make it open source, and move on to the next thing.

But that's great, now that I got into building in bitcoin, I realised the land of opportunity that there is. Because I will build and stick to creating the use-cases, thanks to the amazing tech that was built before me

Well, that's what we're trying to change. Although bitcoin was created only as a push payments network, ~1.5 years ago, Bumi from Alby developed a great new tech called Nostr Wallet Connect. This brings pull payment functionality to bitcoin. Which is truly groundbreaking, because it unlocked direct debit in self-custody. I think this is a game changer that will allow users developers amazing use-cases, while never holding user funds, thereby going around all current regulations, and using bitcoin the way it was meant to be used: peer-to-peer and in full self-custody. At Flash, we're trying to build the strong use-cases that leverage this and can mimic the payment experience of direct debit in fiat. We offer recurring payments for subscriptions for example. We automate our fee capturing thanks to this too.

More of a store of value for now in that sense