54 sats \ 1 reply \ @MoritzK 5 May freebie \ on: The Network Access Exception To The Money Transmitter Rule bitcoin
Do you have a source for reference of this part:
I couldn't find any when I searched for it.
That's not yet working seamlessly because of https://github.com/MutinyWallet/mutiny-node/issues/895#issuecomment-1851306394 if I remember correctly.
I appreciate that this information is posted here with the information that current users are unaffected and that the Alby Browser Extension is available for everybody to use as before.
Everybody who would like to open an Alby account, can reach out to support@getalby.com to get an invite code. New sign-ups remain available.
I love this use case of monetizing APIs. With the Lightning HTTP 402 Protocol there is another lightning protocol based approach to enable charging for API usage. In case you are familiar with L402, what are the advantages of using that one or Proxnut from your point of view?
eCash makes sense if no user accounts are needed/available or just accounting is very hard to do. But user accounts with the usage history and an email address usually have the advantage for apps to reach out for upselling for instance. Do you already have a feeling which industries or even concrete use cases would benefit from going accountless?
Yeay, glad you like it. Thanks so much for the bounty and all the work you do with plebdevs. So important.
Alby + WebLN provides easy access to lightning nodes from a JavaScript frontend.
- As a developer, you don´t need to implement different interfaces for each lightning node implementation. Developers can easily access any node API without having to deal with the complexities of connecting to the node or the underlying protocol. Loading the lightning channels from LND is just a function call: webln.request('listchannels') (example for LND) No macaroons, no gRPC or other additional software package needed to build a web app. Users can bring their own node connection to web applications without having to pass their node credentials, without installing additional node software or having to jump loops to access nodes behind Tor. You can find more details in this blog post
- As a developer you can stay completely in JavaScript but you would need to adjust the naming of the call to each implementation API (e.g. webln.request('listchannels') for LND or webln.request('listpeers') for CLN if you want to load lightning channels of a specific node). With increasing demand that will become more consistent, I guess.
- Examples: Node management dashboard for LND and Liquidity Ad marketplace
Fulgur did a great job in supporting the bolt.fun community. Now the team proved what can be achieved with such a coordinated initiative. With support from other early-stage investors and lightning companies that can be replicated next year.
Are there different metrics that founders need to show to investors when raising money starting with a pre-seed round to a series A round? And are these metrics different for bitcoin focused VCs?
bolt.fun started with a hackathon with <10 submissions and finished with >70 last month. How can we repeat their success? More activity of builders will lead to more economic activity of existing lightning projects (e.g. infrastructure service) but also deal flow for early-stage investors.
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