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+    <h1 class="post-title">Hello World</h2>
+    <span class="post-date">2025-01-01</span>
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+<p>Bring all your Bitcoin data together, gain actionable insights, and simplify decision-making. With full support for On-chain and Lightning, Clams helps individuals and businesses operate on a Bitcoin standard. The Enterprise version is Launching in 2025—<a href="http://eepurl.com/i5kuF-/">join the waitlist</a> for early access.</p>
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+<h3 id="background">Background</h3>
+<p>It all started with a simple question: <strong><em>Can we live on a Bitcoin standard today?</em></strong></p>
+<p>To find out, we ran Lightning nodes for daily payments and paired them with services like <a href="https://www.bitrefill.com/">Bitrefill</a>. The challenges quickly became apparent: every spend triggered a taxable event, and accounting for complex scenarios—like force-closed channels—turned into a logistical nightmare.</p>
+<p>And that’s just Lightning. Like many Bitcoin holders, we have funds spread across various setups: single-sig, multi-sig, and mobile wallets. Meanwhile, new payment protocols like <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-ark-plans-to-scale-private-bitcoin-payments">Ark</a> and <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/cashu-a-vision-for-a-bitcoin-powered-ecash-ecosystem">Cashu</a>, along with emerging economic models like <a href="https://www.samara-ag.com/market-insights/value-for-value"><em>Value for Value</em></a>, are adding even more layers of complexity.</p>
+<p>This abundance of options makes Bitcoin incredibly powerful—but also increasingly difficult to track and manage.</p>
+<p>The reality? Most Bitcoin holders avoid spending because tracking capital gains is tedious and time-consuming. For businesses, generating essential reports like profit and loss statements or cash flow analyses is even harder.</p>
+<p>Bitcoin may be the best form of money, but it’s far from practical for everyday use.</p>
+<p><img src="https://blog.clams.tech/hello-world/./audit.jpg" alt="Audit image" /></p>
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+<h3 id="current-landscape">Current Landscape</h3>
+<p>When tax season arrived, we had no choice but to write custom scripts to convert our Lightning node data into a format compatible with existing accounting software. The process was technical, time-consuming, and required sharing sensitive financial data with third parties.</p>
+<p>To our surprise, many Bitcoiners face the same struggle—spending weekends reconciling transactions every year. Hiring professionals isn’t much better: it’s expensive, manual, and still invasive.</p>
+<p>While “crypto” accounting tools exist, they often fall short for Bitcoin holders. Most focus on simple on-chain transactions and overlook the complexities of protocols like Lightning. This left us wondering:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>How many Bitcoiners are held back by these same challenges?</li>
+<li>Could accounting be a hidden barrier to Bitcoin adoption?</li>
+<li>What if there were a platform that respected privacy and autonomy?</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Today, there’s no Bitcoin-first solution that addresses these issues.</p>
+<p><img src="https://blog.clams.tech/hello-world/./coin.jpg" alt="Bitcoin image" /></p>
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+<h3 id="clams-fixes-this">Clams Fixes This</h3>
+<p><strong>Enter Clams</strong>: a desktop app that preserves your privacy while giving you a complete view of your Bitcoin holdings. Built for individuals and businesses alike, Clams is designed to give you everything you need to live on a Bitcoin Standard.</p>
+<p>Clams does this by syncing data from all your wallets—locally. The app automatically organizes your transactions, tracks wallet transfers, and transforms raw data into actionable insights.</p>
+<p>We built Clams to solve our own problem. As a company attempting to operate on a Bitcoin standard, we understand firsthand the challenges that are slowing the adoption of circular economies.</p>
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+<h3 id="core-features">Core Features</h3>
+<h4 id="sync"><strong>Sync</strong></h4>
+<p>Effortlessly consolidate all your Bitcoin data in one place. Set it up once, and Clams automatically keeps everything up to date.</p>
+<h4 id="enhance"><strong>Enhance</strong></h4>
+<p>Turn raw Bitcoin activity into structured, actionable data with smart tagging and classification.</p>
+<h4 id="visualize"><strong>Visualize</strong></h4>
+<p>Gain insights with customizable charts and visualizations. Answer key questions like: <em>How much did we spend on fees last quarter? How’s our performance this month?</em></p>
+<h4 id="report"><strong>Report</strong></h4>
+<p>Quickly generate essential reports capital gains and profit and loss—saving time and reducing stress.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3 id="join-us">Join Us</h3>
+<p>Whether you’re a small business, a node operator, or someone tired of wrestling with spreadsheets, Clams is for you.</p>
+<p>Who Can Benefit Today:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><strong>Small businesses</strong>: Merchants accepting Bitcoin who need accurate, easy-to-generate financial reports.</li>
+<li><strong>Bitcoin-native founders</strong>: Teams managing reserves and reporting financials to investors.</li>
+<li><strong>Lightning node operators</strong>: Professionals tracking routing profitability and optimizing performance.</li>
+<li><strong>Bitcoin startups</strong>: Builders who struggle to onboard businesses due to inadequate accounting tools.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>We started with a personal and private desktop app tailored to individuals and small businesses. Through research, we discovered that larger businesses often prioritize features like scalability and multi-user access over privacy. That’s why we’re expanding our vision with an Enterprise offering. For those who value owning their own data, the native app will remain a great solution.</p>
+<p>Our Enterprise launch is coming in 2025, but you can join the waitlist today for early access.</p>
+<p>👉 <a href="http://eepurl.com/i5kuF-/">Get early access to Clams Enterprise</a><br />
+🌐 <a href="https://clams.tech">Learn more at clams.tech</a></p>
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