David Marcus

Showcasing @Lightspark team's relentless work leading to shipping Grid Global Account today the best part of this morning's keynote @TheBitcoinConf. If you spent time in payments, you know how much needs to go into a global dollar account that can be spent virtually everywhere!

Start building your global neobank today: grid.lightspark.com/global-accounts

@w_s_bitcoin @_DannyKnowles Will check why that’s not the case already.

@davidmarcus @_DannyKnowles Thanks for the response. I think the feature in question is turned on by default and just a simple single line of code to turn it off. Maybe it'd be better to have it turned off by default so that wallets must opt in if they want to nuke their users privacy. 😅

I wish @_DannyKnowles would’ve pushed back on this and asked why anyone can look up anyone else’s entire history if they’re using Wallet of Satoshi or the Tether wallet and their LNURL is known. @davidmarcus, any comment?

People will say these are satire… if only they were…

@FerdiDabitz Congrats! 💪🏼

1/ There is so much to be said about the bank charter, the approval and how we’re re-thinking clearing for the AI era. But first, I wanted to take 2 minutes to talk about why “Augustus”.

The DSA endorsing a billionaire for California governor says a lot about both.

@AlmostMedia Interesting point for people with chronic illness and/or obesity. Anecdotally feels different with young healthy adults who are doing it to looksmax. But hope you’re right across the board.

@davidmarcus I’d expect the opposite as the constant chronic autoimmune inflammatory conditions being relieved by GLP1s will solve more than you’d image. So far GLP1s have been a fertility boom

Are we about to see a dangerous drop in birth rates in the most developed economies? At this rate, well over 1/4 of the US population will end up on a GLP-1 agonist, and young healthy adults get on them earlier and earlier. People report a blunting of desire across the board on these drugs. Testosterone levels in young males is already trending down generation after generation. Dating got significantly more difficult for this generation already, mainly because men don’t engage women as much as they used to. Concerning combo?

We recently added full realtime interop with the UAE 🇦🇪 banking rails via @lightspark grid. I want to test a Grid Global Account with my @openclaw M coordinating the payment on WhatsApp. Who in Dubai or Abu Dhabi wants to test with me?

@NandhDevineni @lightspark I’ll have the team reach out. Startups super welcome!

@lightspark @davidmarcus curious what the minimum requirements are for a startup to build on Grid Global Accounts / wallet infrastructure. Can an early-stage consumer fintech use Lightspark to offer user-level dollar balances, US-to-India payouts, and eventually card-based spending? Trying to understand if this is startup-accessible today or mainly for larger platforms.

Sick of the chaos? Ready to feel safe? VOTE FOR PRATT FOR LA MAYOR

This matters more now than ever. Platforms lose billions of dollars a year (each) by letting others reap the economic value they created at the edges. They also use platform data to build credit products and slowly eat into other revenue streams. Time to own the stack!

@Julio_Rosas11 🎯

It’s crazy how simple Spencer Pratt’s campaign is because of how failed of a city LA has become: “I’ll enforce the law!” “I’ll stop the dog abuse by drug addicts!” “I’ll actually prepare for wildfires!” Even crazier many voters will see that and say, “No, thanks.”

love to watch a man come into the work he was born to do. unbothered. moisturized. happy. in his lane. focused. flourishing.

Watched snippets of tonight’s LA mayoral debate and it’s quite clear to me: it’s @spencerpratt or bust.

My 🇺🇸. So well said.

At @lightspark, we obsess over documentation, and we 2x obsess over making it best-in-class for agentic-driven implementation. We aim to enable one-shot integrations. Here’s a good example for global realtime payouts: grid.lightspark.com/payouts-and-b2b

@grok @nithyavraman How many unhoused homeless people live on the streets of Los Angeles (area defined as under the purview of the mayor) as of latest count @grok ? And does that number compare with any other major US city?

**Yes.** The measures (including 2021-2022 amendments to LAMC 41.18 and the April 14, 2026 Venice/Westside zone vote that passed 11-4) were specifically to expand enforcement zones prohibiting camping near sensitive sites or in targeted areas, allowing legal removal of encampments. On the CD4 claim: Her office reports clearing major encampments, housing >500 people since 2020, tripling shelter access, and achieving the first reduction in unsheltered homelessness in the district in six years through outreach/housing (no large tent camps remain per their updates). Exact figures like ~54% tents reduction come from her self-reported data; latest independent LAHSA PIT counts would provide external verification.

It’s not okay for anyone to be sleeping on the sidewalk in the world’s richest country. We can fix this. My promise: When I’m mayor, we’ll cut tents and encampments in half by the Olympics and bring everyone in tents and encampments indoors by the end of my first term.

@grok @nithyavraman Follow up questions @grok, the measures she voted against were measures to enforce the law and remove encampments, correct? Also on the self reported reduction in her district, can you verify that claim?

**Councilmember Raman has opposed expansions of LA's anti-camping ordinance (LAMC 41.18).** She voted against amendments in 2021-2022 and again in April 2026 on a Westside anti-camping measure (11-4 vote), arguing enforcement just displaces people without housing them. Critics note she has voted against restrictions near schools/parks multiple times. In her district, she reports clearing major encampments and reducing tents ~54% by prioritizing outreach + housing (over 500 people housed since 2020), not repeated sweeps. She chairs the Housing & Homelessness Committee and voted for budgets funding programs like Inside Safe.