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We removed credit cards just to put them back in!
26 sats \ 5 comments \ @RealStarBackr 28 May 2022 bitcoin freebie
Hi everyone, Egge from Starbackr here :)
If you follow @RealStarbackr on Twitter you might have noticed that we enabled credit card on-/ and off-ramps this week, thanks to the help of Azte.co and paywithmoon.com
Now some people might be wondering about that. In the end Starbackr was meant to remove legacy payment rails in paid social networks, right?
And we did that! Starbackr is still built on Lightning transactions and the transactions on platform are still 100% Bitcoin. We removed the dependencies on credit cards to reintroduce them as complementary feature. Creators on Starbackr can still create freely and in peace, because even if Visa pulled the plug, the platform would just live on and creators can always withdraw in Bitcoin.
We are very interested in your thoughts. So if you have the time, we would highly appreciate the SN community leaving their two Sats down below 🧡
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32 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 28 May 2022
That actually sounds like a good idea. How hard was it to integrate? I'm guessing the azte.co took a bit of work, but for paywithmoon, did you actually do anything apart from writing docs? Did you have to talk to them? :)
For other folks also wondering:
Just a small idea: if you want Bitcoiners to start using starbackr and start supporting it, it would help if you have LNURL-Auth ;)
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealStarBackr OP 28 May 2022 freebie
Thank you for your feedback and also for providing those links! :)
Yes, you are absolutely right. The Azte.co integration was a little bit more complex and in the current setup the Moon off-ramp is a chain of links. However we are in contact with them in order to make the whole thing seamless.
And we agree that a “Login with Lightning”-button would be amazing. Logging in via LNURL-auth is something that we are currently playing around with in dev. If everything works out, that will be going live in a few of weeks!
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder 28 May 2022
yes. Spot on. Login with lightning is our top priority list.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @handsome_latino 28 May 2022
not to be a party pooper, but is it possible to find a replacement for paywithmoon? There is quite some evidence that the CTO was not treated well (reddit) and it seems the other founder is not technical, for example, he holds user keys in his own private aws account, in cleartext.
I can't verify if it's true or not but as a developer (who has been caught in a somewhat similar cofounder situation) and who has worked for million-dollar funded companies... that have held private data in unsecure servers, it's an important PSA.
EDIT: sorry, replied to the wrong nested thread, @RealStarBackr
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder 28 May 2022
Looking forward to the day when Stripe/Credit card companies shut this down...!
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