34 sats \ 3 replies \ @d11n OP 7 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: Dennis from the BTCPay Server team here, AMA! bitcoin
We offer exports in CSV and JSON format. Those contain all the details one needs for the accounting and bookkeeping.
BTCPay Server runs separately and takes care of the checkout. So you can do the shopping part in another system like Wix, WooCommerce, Shopify, etc. (see our integrations) and for the payment you redirect the customer to your BTCPay Server if they choose to pay with Bitcoin.
BTCPay Server runs a full node, that‘s part of the software stack.
Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. It's not that SciFi anymore as it used to be, but still a very entertaining read.
GitHub vs. GitLab: We‘ve hosted our projects on GH from the beginning and moving just for the sake of moving would be a big distraction I assume. However, we are monitoring alternatives and would be willing to move, if the situation requires it, e.g. with censorship.
Favorite 2.0: The Podcasting 2.0 Podcast – oh, how meta is that? Hehe, it‘s because they talk a lot about the development, how to approach Podcasting 2.0 and they explore this new space. That‘s what I like about it. And listening to Adam Curry is entertaining.
Favorite in general: Stephan Livera does a very good job on economic and technical topics, I really like what he does!
Lesser known: Bitcoin OP_UXUI, very good in-depth discussions about user experience and related things in Bitcoin.
The german scene has some very good shows as well, they obviously are for a german-speaking audience, but tbh I have weeks in which my backlog is so full, that I can listen to very good content from my home country only.
Bitcoiners not wanting to spend their sats ;)
From the merchant side it might also be regulatory unclarity, depending on where they are located.
133 sats \ 1 reply \ @d11n OP 6 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: Dennis from the BTCPay Server team here, AMA! bitcoin
Not so long ago I had my own e-commerce shop and I sold merchandise (shirts, caps, coffee mugs) for our podcast. I was using a drop shipping service for that and it worked quite well, though they didn't accept bitcoin as apayment method ;)
I think we are split Core Lightning and LND. We also support Eclair, but CL and LND are by far the most popular choices. I personally run LND, but I think by now the plugin architecture of Core Lightning is very interesting and holds a lot of potential.
BTCPay Server is an open source project that's free to use for everyone, all around the world. I've received feedback from users across the world, my favorite one was from Eritrea :)
We'd certainly love to :D
Most of the team recently met in Riga at the Baltic Honeybadger conference and I can assure you we'd have no trouble setting up good aftershow parties.
There are some very good educators I'd certainly invite, so that we can sing some BTCPay love songs all around the world.
The setup/deployment story is still something we can improve: Oftentimes people want to use their own node at home to run BTCPay Server and exposing those instances on the public internet is still tricky.
I'm bullish on the Podcasting 2.0 and Value 4 Value movement in general. We are just getting started with finding out various ways in which especially Lightning enables seamless ways to earn sats.
Yes, exposing a local instance to the public internet is a bit tricky. There are multiple ways to do so and we've documented quite a few: Using Cloudflare or the Reverse SSH tunnel are the most popular ones.
Come to our Mattermost chat if you need help setting those up.
Technically I learned to enjoy Object Oriented Programming again. Before I got into BTCPay I was doing mostly Functional Programming and thought I wouldn't go back to OOP, but C# is a nice language once you get used to it.
Other than that the best thing about BTCPay is the people I got to know and became friends with. It's surprising what a team can achieve, when everyone is so passionate and motivated — something you don't see that much in the corporate world.
Hmm, that's a touch one. I don't buy into the "we need mass adaption" narrative as I think Bitcoin is ready to help those who need it. In the end everyone might end up using Bitcoin as nowadays everyone is using the internet, but Bitcoin is helping people around the world already and you can live a hyperbitcoinized life already if you want to.
I contributed to open source projects before Bitcoin, but once I got into Bitcoin there was an even stronger urge to help projects with my UI/UX skills. When I started about four years ago, that area was really lacking in most projects and people were thankful for those kinds of contributions. It's really motivating to work on something you believe in, so I had to make it a full-time thing :)
I think SeedSigner, RaspiBlitz, JAM (JoinMarket Web UI), Specter Desktop and Sparrow Wallet are pretty lit too.