SDSamuel Dahunsiinpsalmuel.hashnode.dev·Sep 8, 2025 · 4 min readWhat Building a Stripe for Bitcoin Taught Me About Designing for ClarityWhen I started working on StackPay, my idea was simple: build a payment gateway that lets businesses accept Bitcoin via sBTC on Stacks. Something like Stripe, but powered by Bitcoin. But very quickly, I realized this wasn’t going to be like building ...00
SDSamuel Dahunsiinpsalmuel.hashnode.dev·Sep 5, 2025 · 6 min readIntegrating sBTC Deposit and Withdraw Functionality with Stacks Smart ContractsIntroduction As a developer building on the Stacks blockchain, I've spent considerable time wrestling with sBTC (synthetic Bitcoin) integrations. sBTC represents a groundbreaking way to bring Bitcoin's liquidity into a programmable layer-2 environmen...00
SDSamuel Dahunsiinpsalmuel.hashnode.dev·Aug 30, 2025 · 2 min readSmart Contracts on Bitcoin Shouldn’t Mimic Ethereum — They Should Redefine TrustWhen people hear “smart contracts on Bitcoin,” their first instinct is to compare it with Ethereum. They ask: “Can Stacks do what Solidity does? How fast are the contracts? Can we build DeFi the same way?” But that framing is all wrong. If the goal o...00
SDSamuel Dahunsiinpsalmuel.hashnode.dev·Jul 9, 2025 · 4 min readUnderstanding Block Height in Stacks BlockchainMastering Time-Based Behavior in Clarity with stacks-block-height Introduction: A World Without Clocks Time is fundamental to most applications: subscription renewals, voting deadlines, ticket expirations, auction closings. But on the Stacks blockch...00