MicroStrategy, the enterprise intelligence and tech firm that holds the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) reserve, is hiring a Bitcoin Lightning software program engineer to create a Lightning Community-based software-as-a-service platform.

The brand new engineer might be answerable for constructing a Lightning Community-based platform to deal with enterprise cybersecurity challenges and allow new e-commerce use circumstances, based on a job posting linked to the MicroStrategy web site. Apart from “an adversarial mindset,” the applicant ought to have certificates, information of instruments and programming languages, and expertise with decentralized finance applied sciences.

MicroStrategy is trying to rent a Bitcoin Lightning Software program Engineer to construct a Lightning Community-based SaaS platform. #bitcoin pic.twitter.com/XFYrkIaFA9

— Neil Jacobs (@NeilJacobs) September 30, 2022

MicroStrategy, based in 1989, started a Bitcoin shopping for spree in August 2020 that has culminated in a reserve of 130,000 BTC, value $2.57 billion on the time of writing. The acquisition of the ultimate 301 BTC of its holdings was introduced on Sept. 20, paying round $3.98 billion for your complete reserve. Bitcoin profitability for long-term holders not too long ago hit a four-year low. MicroStrategy now holds 0.62% of all of the BTC that can ever exist.

MicroStrategy co-founder and former CEO Michael Saylor is properly often known as a Bitcoin maximalist and defender of the cryptocurrency. Saylor resigned as CEO on Aug. 2but stays the chief chair of the corporate. Saylor mentioned the change would:

“Allow us to raised pursue our two company methods of buying and holding Bitcoin and rising our enterprise analytics software program enterprise.”

Saylor and MicroStrategy had been sued on the finish of the identical month for tax evasion by the workplace of the Washington, DC legal professional basic.

How excessive transaction charges are being tackled within the blockchain ecosystem

The Lightning Community is a Bitcoin layer-2 protocol designed to boost fee throughput and decrease transaction charges. It has been making gradual progressin facilitating peer-to-peer transactions because it debuted in 2018.