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214 sats \ 7 comments \ @fourrules 21h culture

Alright, here’s a half-baked idea that gets less dumb the longer you think about it:

bitcupid.app — a dating app where users can verify in two ways:

Traditional ID/KYC (for people who want to be seen)
Or, a Bitcoin address / Lightning wallet (for the pseudonymous romantic)

The domain is available. If you vibe with the idea and want to build it, go buy it. I'm time-constrained but seems like a feasible weekend project with Claude Max.

Here’s the twist: If you sign up with a Bitcoin wallet, the balance shows on your profile. Not your name, not your face (unless you want) — just the fact that you hodl. You’re not selling yourself, you’re flexing proof-of-stack.

Now think about something: is there another asset where it's possible to do this in a dating app environment?

The thing is, Bitcoiners are paranoid. Understandably. But if someone gets scammed through this, it’s either by someone who submitted ID (traceable), or someone who signed up with a wallet that actually held BTC. Either way, skin in the game.

And let’s be honest: There are way more people who’d like to meet a real hodler than there are actual hodlers. Not a person who talks about bitcoin all the time, someone with a real verifiable. Some people missed the boat. Some don’t have the conviction. But they might have something else to offer: loyalty, vibes, vibes again, who knows.

If you’re not signing up pseudonymously with sats, then yeah, you’ll probably need pics and a decent personal pitch. That’s where LLMs can come in — let the AI guide onboarding, generate your profile, help you flirt, whatever. Make it feel like a conversation, not a tax form. Fuck it, if you're signing up with ID why not let it generate your images, lean in. Everything online is fake, don't fight it. They'll be found out eventually, HODLers will always verify. What can't be faked is a provably scarce digital asset.

So yeah, it’s a bit of a meme — Bitcupid — but it’s also kinda brilliant. The overlap of “stacker” and “seeking partner” is real. Dating apps suck, so why not add sats?

Summary for the attention deficits:

bitcupid.app (free domain as of now)

Verify via ID or sats

Wallet balance (flex) shows on profile

LLMs help with onboarding & bio writing

Some people wanna buy Bitcoin. Some wanna date it.

If you’ve got time to code and you’re feelin’ this — vibe code it. I’m buried atm.

Let me know what y’all think.

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38 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 21h

This sounds like a good idea, except that enterprising individuals might use it target wealthy hodlers and lure them in with a thirst trap and then wrench attack them. What is your defense against this?

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @fourrules OP 18h

I agree, first of all the ID verification, but I agree that people might be willing to present their ID in order to obtain compromising information that can be used in such a manner than is not traceable back to them.

In one respect my response is caveat emptor. Life, including love, is risky. And I don't think it's in the spirit of Bitcoin to protect other people from themselves.

Typically security like this, from serpentine behaviour, comes from networks where repeated interactions around shared activities allows participants to identify habitually good actors or trustworthy actors. This is extremely difficult to achieve in the context of a dating app, where dating is explicitly the goal as opposed to something that happens as an outcome of another goal that is more efficient at identifying good actors.

So in the absence of a good game that users can play, as a proxy for identifying honest actors, the app could identify patterns of behaviour that are often associated with cat fishing and pig butchering, and then warn stackers incessantly.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 8h

Well, you could make it super exclusive by requiring people to put up some kind of bitcoin bond--in order to see the 1btc people, you have to put up 1btc, etc...

But honestly, if I was in the dating world, I would choose to take my risks at the bar, rather than via advertising my stack.

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @fourrules OP 10h

What I realised is that the bigger threat is creating a honeypot of Bitcoiners identifiable through their partners, who went through ID verification in the past. You couldn't trust that that data would be deleted.

Of course that would be somewhat obfuscated by the fact that you couldn't conclusively map the chat on the app with a person they met in the real world and married 3 years later.

107 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 21h

I think mixing real identities, advertising you own bitcoin, and meeting people in real life is not worth the dangers it introduces.

Most of us aren't married to bitcoiners and are happy - even if we're poorer for it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingecko 8h

It's a cool idea but I would definitely be worried sharing this information. Perhaps I would add a wallet with minimal Bitcoin and try.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 20h

The best Bitcoiner is the one who people don't know is a Bitcoiner.