New Jersey Innovation and Technology Alliance

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New Jersey Innovation and Technology Alliance

New Jersey Innovation and Technology Alliance

@NJITAlliance

NJ Innovation & Tech Alliance: Connecting & empowering NJ's tech community. We educate, advocate & build networks to drive innovation across the Garden State.

New Jersey Katılım Ekim 2024
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Cointelegraph
Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph·
🍕 Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! On this day in 2010, 10,000 $BTC was spent on two pizzas, the first ever real-world Bitcoin transaction. Never forget the pizza that started it all. Show us your pizza! 👇
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Stand With Crypto🛡️
Stand With Crypto🛡️@standwithcrypto·
Every May 22nd, we celebrate the transaction that started it all. Join @standwithcrypto x @Pizza_DAO at a Bitcoin Pizza Day party in your city this FRIDAY 🍕
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Chaumian ecash David Chaum invented this in 1982. DigiCash (1989) failed. In 2022–23, Bitcoin revived it: • Cashu (by "Calle") — single-operator mints • Fedimint (by "Elsirion") — federated mints (15–30 guardians) Both use Chaum's blind signatures. How it works: Deposit BTC → mint Get ecash tokens Spend instantly, privately, free Redeem back to BTC/Lightning Custodial. Use for daily, not savings. Running in El Salvador, Lugano, Madeira, Kenya. #Bitcoin #Crypto #NewJersey #Tech #BitcoinPizzaDay
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Spend BTC IRL 🌐 Online: Travala, Bitrefill (→ Amazon/Uber/Starbucks), Newegg 📍In person: btcmap.org 🍔 Steak 'n Shake: 200+ locations (2024) 🟦 Square/Block rolling Lightning out through 2025–26 👥 P2P: Lightning to a friend in seconds 3 days to go 🍕
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#Quantum vs #Bitcoin — 2026 update Threat is real (Shor's algorithm breaks ECDSA). Timeline tightened in past 6 months: • Google (Mar 2026): fewer qubits needed than thought • Project Eleven (May 2026): Q-Day by 2030–2033 • 25–40% of BTC sits in exposed-pubkey addresses Defense is also real: • NIST PQC standards finalized Aug 2024 (ML-DSA, ML-KEM, SLH-DSA) • BIP-360 = Bitcoin's post-quantum proposal • BTQ Technologies demoed quantum-safe Bitcoin Oct 2025 • Algorand already did a PQ tx Today: don't buy "quantum-proof" altcoins selling fear. Watch BIP-360. #BitcoinPizzaDay #Tech #NewJersey
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Lightning ⚡ BTC's second layer. Instant. Fractions of a cent in fees. For Pizza Day: • Cash App (US) • Muun (global) • Phoenix (global) Fund w/ $5–$20. Pay in <60 sec. (Wallet of Satoshi exited US in 2024 — check availability.) 4 days to go 🍕 LINK TO HOBOKEN, NJ EVENT PINNED ON BIO!! #BitcoinPizzaDay #Bitcoin #NewJersey
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AI + Bitcoin AI agents can't use credit cards. Too much friction, no autonomy. L402 (Lightning Labs): HTTP 402 + Lightning invoice + macaroon token. Pay-per-request. No accounts. No API keys. Just payment as authentication. 2/ How it works: Agent → request Server → 402 + invoice + token Agent → pays via Lightning, gets preimage Agent → resends with proof Server → serves resource Cloudflare: 1B+ 402 responses/day in 2025. #Crypto #Bitcoin #BitcoinPizzaDay #Tech #NewJersey
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Citrea & Chainway Labs Chainway = the company. Citrea = the rollup. First Bitcoin ZK-rollup, mainnet live since Jan 27, 2026. EVM-equivalent zkEVM (on RISC Zero). Any Ethereum contract deploys unchanged. 2/ Funded: • $2.7M seed (Galaxy, Feb 2024) • $14M Series A (Founders Fund, Oct 2024) Three pieces: • Clementine — BitVM bridge • cBTC — trust-min BTC • ctUSD — Treasury-backed stablecoin 30+ ₿apps live at launch. 3/ Skeptical view: single sequencer, federation-backed bridge. Bitcoin stores proofs, not logic. Trust moved, not removed. Both takes have merit. #Bitcoin #Crypto #DeFi #NewJersey #Tech
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Send your first tx 🚀 Open wallet → Send Paste address (or scan QR) Enter amount Pick fee (higher = faster) Confirm Track it: mempool.space Practice: send yourself $1 in sats. That's the whole skill. 6 days to go 🍕 Link on our profile: May 22 Global Pizza Party event in Hoboken, NJ!!!
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Bitcoin on ICP Normal "BTC on X chain" = custodian + wrapped token + bridge risk. ICP route: canisters sign real BTC txs using threshold ECDSA. Private key is split across the node network — never reconstructed. Live since November 2022. ckBTC = actual BTC, native, no bridge. 1:1 backed, 1–2 sec finality. Different trust model: you're trusting ICP consensus instead of a bridge custodian. Worth understanding before deposit. Sources: • ckBTC: internetcomputer.org/ckbtc • Threshold ECDSA: internetcomputer.org/how-it-works/t… • DFINITY launch post: medium.com/dfinity/chain-… #Bitcoin #ICP #DeFi #Crypto #NewJersey
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☀️ buy your first sats 💸 $10 ≈ 12,000 sats. Plenty. Cash App / Coinbase / Strike Verify ID Buy $10–$50 ⚠️ WITHDRAW to your wallet Leaving it on the exchange = not really owning it. (See: Mt. Gox 2014, FTX 2022.) Join us in Hoboken, NJ on May 22nd!!! Link pinned on our profile. 7 days to Pizza Day 🍕
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