The concept of money has been around for at least 5,000 years. Yet, the topic of money brings up more questions than answers for many. From how it works, how it doesn't work, to what is within reach for people.
That makes no sense.
Maybe that's why Bitcoin has opened up new conversations about money.
Our new awareness campaign, Bitcoin Does, is to help Americans understand money, Bitcoin, and what it can do for them in everyday life.
For the curious: block.xyz/inside/block-launc…
Some things don't make sense.
Bitcoin does.
block.xyz/bitcoin/does
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[Field notes] @AmritaAhuja in London with our UK team, investors, sellers, and local leaders.
- South London: visiting Lulu's, a deli-by-day, wine-bar-by-night, and Archie's, a full-service Latin American restaurant, to hear directly from sellers
- Westminster: meeting advisers at No 10 Downing Street to discuss supporting small business growth and expanding access for consumers across the UK
- The London office: welcoming our newest cohort of field sales reps
- Local media: sharing more on Block's presence across the UK and Europe
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Block retweeted
Bitcoin can finally “be part of the party”
@moneyball & co. break down bitcoin and Lightning joining x402, the importance of permissionless rails for AI agents, and the work still needed to make bitcoin a default money for them ↓
Timestamps:
0:00 - What x402 is and why adding bitcoin is a big deal
03:36 - The work ahead
05:39 - Early x402 use cases for Lightning
08:13 - Making bitcoin easy for x402 merchants
14:13 - Why permissionless payments matter for agents
16:31 - Why open-source agents matter
19:28 - The time-sensitive race to make bitcoin native to AI agents
22:16 - Making open agent tools polished enough to compete
24:59 - Permissioned vs permissionless agent economies
27:02 - Building a permissionless web for agents
Block has joined the x402 Foundation, an open standard for agentic payments, to help build the rails that will let people, businesses, and agents pay and get paid.
We’ve also contributed Bitcoin Lightning payments, which is purpose-built for the instant, low-cost, high-volume payments that agentic commerce will depend on.
More here: block.xyz/inside/block-joins…
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The New Rules of Great Design ft. @brooke_h_ellis, Block's Chief Design Officer.
Watch the full conversation with @FastCompany: fastcompany.com/video/916080…
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Autonomy over everything.
Freedom Tech DC: Open Intelligence with @Jack
- Open source is a boon for global innovation
- AI will reshape company structures + how @blocks operates
- Instead of slowing down, we should open more
- Government should fund compute
- The cypherpunks built Bitcoin in the open -- we should build AI the same way
(00:00) — Introduction & Why Open Source Matters
(03:50) — From Goose to Buzz: AI Collaboration
(05:28) — Rethinking the Company structure in the AI Era
(09:47) — Three Roles: Contributors, Outcome Owners & Coaches
(13:01) — Open the Frontier: Permissionless AI Innovation
(19:29) — Openness, Safety & the Fear of AI
(24:20) — Government’s Role: Shared Compute & Access
(29:53) — The Punk Ethos: Build, Fail & Learn in Public
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Block has joined the x402 Foundation, an open standard for agentic payments, to help build the rails that will let people, businesses, and agents pay and get paid.
We’ve also contributed Bitcoin Lightning payments, which is purpose-built for the instant, low-cost, high-volume payments that agentic commerce will depend on.
More here: block.xyz/inside/block-joins…
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[Field notes] @owenbjennings at @theinformation AI Agenda Live shared more on the layers to building Block as intelligence company:
- Our world models are deepening what we understand about our operations and our customers
- How agent loops are helping teams ship faster
- Why model agnostic is the way to go
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A few updates to Buzz.
Buzz Desktop v0.5.24 🐝
Give each agent a shared channel conversation or separate conversations for each thread. Plus clearer setup, remembered Inbox filtering, better startup recovery, and fixes for agent avatars across communities.
github.com/block/buzz/releas…
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Shared context sets the pace.
On The AI report, Block's Head of AI Capabilities @bradleyaxen talks AI memory, the thinking behind Buzz, and why the future of work is multiplayer.
Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=a3662l7b…
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An open source team moved its day-to-day development into Buzz. Across matched workweeks, MeshLLM merged 56% more PRs and cut median merge time from about 7 hours to 4. More on the setup, data, and caveats from our engineering team: engineering.block.xyz/blog/s…
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Block retweeted
excited for this one - - going to be an incredible conversation !
Leaders from Atlassian, Replit and Block are joining us at AI Agenda Live next week.
Hear from @TYehoshua, @amasad and @owenbjennings on how AI is changing products, software development and the way people work.
Join us on Wednesday Sept. 23 in San Francisco. Get your ticket: thein.fo/4yDCegV
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Field notes from the @FastCompany Innovation Festival, where @brooke_h_ellis joined “The New Rules of Design” panel:
- Protect designers’ ability to imagine and dream
- Ideas can be expressed faster than ever so the question now is what to build, and when
- Prediction: intelligence will become the product
- The new premium is trust and authorship
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Sometimes you have to draw outside the lines.
We don’t have strict brand guidelines at @CashApp
Work like this is why.
We flex the brand to fit whatever we’re building. This was for kids accounts.
Keep a few things consistent. Logo, green, type. Everything else can move.
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Demos of both Berd and Buzz from our On The Block Investor Relations series.
Full conversation here: piped.video/chTQ21FjpJg?si=dTGw…
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