25 sats \ 3 replies \ @faithandcredit 19 May 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
What do you think is the best way for a pc game modder to put up a lightning donation link on his mod page? Lots of modders have paypal links but what is the equivalent if he wanted to recieve to sats and or BTC? is there a super easy solution or do you need to run your own stuff?
Alby has promoted the method where you simply put a ⚡ in front of your Lightning address: ⚡
earnbitcoin@stacker.news
This does two things: Firstly, it helps to differentiate it, somewhat, from that being an e-mail address. Secondly, it serves as a marker for the Alby browser plugin to know that is the Lighting address for payments (e.g., when in your Twitter profile, github profile, youtube video description, etc. -- whatever Alby supports).
But that only is useful with a browser that has integrated LN payment support (which is coming in one form or another) or a browser extension, like Alby. So that's pretty much only LN enthusiasts who do that today.
But I can copy / pasta that Lightning address into my wallet (e.g., Bluewallet) and send the tip from that. So it still works for the purpose of enabling me to pay or tip someone without them providing me an invoice.
Or, instead of (or in addition to) a Lightning address, provide a link that leads to a "tipping" page. Alby provides this:
https://getalby.com/earnbitcoin
Zebedee has a wallet promoted as being for gamers, and your wallet account has a "gamer tag" (account pseudonym). So maybe that might work well for you as well, as someone who already has Zebedee wallet can send to your gamertag. The gamertag is also your Lightning address, so it is in the format
mygamertag@zbd.gg
And that gamertag also has a tipping page. For example, fiatjaf has a Zbd gamertag, so anyone can send a payment or tip to him using this URL:
https://zbd.gg/fiatjaf
There's a number of other methods ... e.g., tippin.me, even starbackr, and more.
If you are technical, you might find LightningTip useful. Or instead, maybe:
Add Tipping to your Site with LNBits
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https://klabo.blog/lightning/bitcoin/lnbits/2022/05/14/add-tipping-to-your-site-with-LNBits.html
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impressive stuff. thank you.
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Thanks!
I forgot about one other one. If it is your own site (or can add a javascript embed), then there's this:
Cool lightning.address concept
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https://widgets.twentyuno.net/
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