yeah. i am build ios/android client with react native for stacker news, but it's read-only version. Alrealy finished the most part, will open source soon. Your graphql api is awesome! Very easy to use!
Pretty cool! It works quite well - I have bunch of small UX suggestions and it is missing little features here and there, but this is a great start.
Is there a way to login with lightning?
As @k00b said - I think you should create a post to get some sats and feedback from folks ;)
Working on a one click deployment of full node + LN on AWS (CloudFormation) using infrastructure that costs $10 per month.
User configures a few parameters, like tor enabled, rpc password (auto generated option as well) and gets access parameters as a result of CloudFormation deployment.
The point is, that anyone should be able to do it with a few simple steps - this is where CloudFormation magic comes into play.
Sync should be optimized to complete in a few days. Still a work in progress tho.
Whilst its always great to have multiple node options - are you concerned about the potential centralising pressure that cloud-based nodes built on centralised clusters like AWS add to the network?
From the censorship side, I don't think aws really cares. Also, IMO, cloud nodes are necessary for businesses. RPis are just not gonna cut it for any kind of online business handling some real traffic and relying on 99.99% uptime. When we raise merchant adoption, users will follow.
We are working on Chinese Bitcoin podcast named <發現比特幣>, basically means, discovering bitcoin.
Feel free to share with your friends and family who understand Chinese.
https://fountain.fm/show/pQqWFNgsiqRJct1o9cYL
I have a section where i sell cheap tees for only 20k sats w/ free domestic shipping. I don't get too many orders but it's there.
the entire store is priced in Bitcoin and always will be. Uses lightning, built on WordPress and uses the BTC pay server plug in. works like a dream thanks to zero fee routing.
Building a web based bitcoin pleb citadel there are many ( earncarrot & stacker.news included) .For me this takes partial restructuring of the business plan and social finance platform to run on a Bitcoin standard.
(Transactions, subscriptions, financial education and community pipelines all migrated to Bitcoin conscious community hub. Hopefully with full LN integration)
All the educational material, concept structures are built out or compiled with prototypes ( building the webpage & LNstore right now)
if you guys have any solid LN dev recommendations drop their social medias or post a link from Jobs.
Educating myself. I run a full node to use with my cold wallet. However, I'm not sure where or how to jump into the lightning network. I'm not a fan of the all-in-one solutions(umbrel, citadel, etc). I run my own servers at home, so I'm happy to run LND in a docker container, but then what? I'd have to fund and manage channels? So I use BlueWallet. But, honestly, the biggest hurdle for me at the moment is vendors. There are no local (I'm in the bay area) shops that take LN. For online only purchases, its just as convenient to make an on-chain transaction...
Increasing my literacy around Bitcoin which enables far more concise, open discussions with the community, friends & family around all the facets of Bitcoin (and money in general).
Through my limited capacity - try to incorporate it into my everyday life. Moved to using fountain instead of Spotify for my daily podcast listening's on the drive to/from work. Read articles via Carrot or Stacker.News etc etc.
This might be taboo to say here but I actively try to earn any "crypto" I can through various means, which I convert to LN Sats to either add to my stack or distribute to people when the opportunity arrives to onboard someone. Its like my own personal speculative attack on crypto lol.
I'm still at the beginning of my Bitcoin journey, but the more I learn and discover - the more I realise that Bitcoin will be my once in a lifetime opportunity to make a positive impact on the world, both on a personal level and for the greater good of humanity.
I spend a lot of time investigating problems in lnd and other node implementations (especially unexpected force-closed channels) and I raise issues as much as I can. I'd love to contribute more fixes, but that's harder than expected.
Well I ask here where people spend their Sats or where you can use Sats and then I tweet all the answers...
Unfortunately not big adoption yet.... but will make it!!!
Learning, testing, using apps, there is a long way ahead for all of us to keep learning. The lightning network is going to change the world.
Some are experts and others are not. 👊🏼
I want to show every single person I interact with how cool this is.
I wanted to reach out and propose an idea that I believe could help increase lightning adoption among our customers. As you know, merchants typically pay 2.9% + 30 cents for credit card usage and have accounted for this in their business model.
What if we kept the pricing the same for merchants, but offered a 2% cashback to customers instantly for using the lightning network? This way, customers would be incentivized to use the lightning network and could potentially save money on fees.
I think this could be a great way to increase adoption and encourage more people to try out the lightning network. What do you think?
contributing to open design of https://bitcoin.design/
Excellent project ;-)
i am building the stacker.news app during my part time..
You are?
yeah. i am build ios/android client with react native for stacker news, but it's read-only version. Alrealy finished the most part, will open source soon. Your graphql api is awesome! Very easy to use!
Did you use the mock by any chance?
Hi @nout, I have open sourced the stacker-news app.
https://github.com/kale5195/sn-app.
Would you like try it and give some feedback? Thanks.
Sorry I haven't had time to check it out. Been a little overloaded even though I'm really excited about it!
When you're ready maybe make a post so you can get feedback from everyone.
Would you have .apk?
Just published a apk, you can download here: https://github.com/kale5195/sn-app/releases/tag/v0.0.1-beta
Pretty cool! It works quite well - I have bunch of small UX suggestions and it is missing little features here and there, but this is a great start. Is there a way to login with lightning?
As @k00b said - I think you should create a post to get some sats and feedback from folks ;)
Oh, didn't see that before. Just saw the app benefits you mentioned. Those are very good suggestions!
For the mvp, it's read-only version, I'd like to mimic the web first.
I can open source the code by the end of week, after that you and other developers/designers can join to help..
Hey @k00b, I just invite you to the stacker.news app repo..
If you have some time, could you please take a look at? Then I can make it public
I started years ago (2014-2016) convincing nocoiners and in special small merchants to start using BTC.
Then I start creating meetups in my local area and talk with many people about (normal people, small merchants).
Then I wrote several guides and 1and1 sessions with random people that need help with bitcoin solutions and apps.
Now I have to fight shitcoiners, are a disease to bitcoin.
Working on a one click deployment of full node + LN on AWS (CloudFormation) using infrastructure that costs $10 per month.
User configures a few parameters, like tor enabled, rpc password (auto generated option as well) and gets access parameters as a result of CloudFormation deployment.
The point is, that anyone should be able to do it with a few simple steps - this is where CloudFormation magic comes into play.
Sync should be optimized to complete in a few days. Still a work in progress tho.
Really cool initiative!
Whilst its always great to have multiple node options - are you concerned about the potential centralising pressure that cloud-based nodes built on centralised clusters like AWS add to the network?
From the censorship side, I don't think aws really cares. Also, IMO, cloud nodes are necessary for businesses. RPis are just not gonna cut it for any kind of online business handling some real traffic and relying on 99.99% uptime. When we raise merchant adoption, users will follow.
Very insightful. Appreciate the response
is it similar to voltage (https://voltage.cloud/)
well, voltage is custodial, so it's a pretty big difference imo.
damn, super interested in this solution!
Keep me posted!
I'll definitely post it here
basically using it...
We are working on Chinese Bitcoin podcast named <發現比特幣>, basically means, discovering bitcoin. Feel free to share with your friends and family who understand Chinese. https://fountain.fm/show/pQqWFNgsiqRJct1o9cYL
I buy my coffee beans using LN https://literoasters.com/
i am doing my part by actively using Bitcoin/LN utilities.
many are just hodling bitcoin withouy using it on real world applications.
using bitcoin extensively is the key for mass adoption. few know and working on it.
more utilities on bitcoin brings more users and there by adoption.
Run a node and provide liquidity so the network works nicely.
https://10millionsatoshis.net
I have a section where i sell cheap tees for only 20k sats w/ free domestic shipping. I don't get too many orders but it's there.
the entire store is priced in Bitcoin and always will be. Uses lightning, built on WordPress and uses the BTC pay server plug in. works like a dream thanks to zero fee routing.
Building a web based bitcoin pleb citadel there are many ( earncarrot & stacker.news included) .For me this takes partial restructuring of the business plan and social finance platform to run on a Bitcoin standard.
(Transactions, subscriptions, financial education and community pipelines all migrated to Bitcoin conscious community hub. Hopefully with full LN integration)
All the educational material, concept structures are built out or compiled with prototypes ( building the webpage & LNstore right now)
if you guys have any solid LN dev recommendations drop their social medias or post a link from Jobs.
love the thread many great builders out here!
I'm building a silent payments prototype (no-fork-necessary)
Track the progress on https://twitter.com/LibreLoya
Educating myself. I run a full node to use with my cold wallet. However, I'm not sure where or how to jump into the lightning network. I'm not a fan of the all-in-one solutions(umbrel, citadel, etc). I run my own servers at home, so I'm happy to run LND in a docker container, but then what? I'd have to fund and manage channels? So I use BlueWallet. But, honestly, the biggest hurdle for me at the moment is vendors. There are no local (I'm in the bay area) shops that take LN. For online only purchases, its just as convenient to make an on-chain transaction...
Like I said educating myself.
Try to promote it with content creators, as a way to receive tips or sell content. But still feel that we need to work on UX.
I'm a relatively new Bitcoiner - School of 2021.
Deploying my own BTC/LN node.
Increasing my literacy around Bitcoin which enables far more concise, open discussions with the community, friends & family around all the facets of Bitcoin (and money in general).
Through my limited capacity - try to incorporate it into my everyday life. Moved to using fountain instead of Spotify for my daily podcast listening's on the drive to/from work. Read articles via Carrot or Stacker.News etc etc.
This might be taboo to say here but I actively try to earn any "crypto" I can through various means, which I convert to LN Sats to either add to my stack or distribute to people when the opportunity arrives to onboard someone. Its like my own personal speculative attack on crypto lol.
I'm still at the beginning of my Bitcoin journey, but the more I learn and discover - the more I realise that Bitcoin will be my once in a lifetime opportunity to make a positive impact on the world, both on a personal level and for the greater good of humanity.
Contributions to Bitcoin Magazine in my free time; not really anything groundbreaking but trying to spread the word when I can.
That is Amazing !!!
I’m working on self-custody aimed at people who are new to bitcoin (as opposed to bitcoin enthusiasts)
I spend a lot of time investigating problems in lnd and other node implementations (especially unexpected force-closed channels) and I raise issues as much as I can. I'd love to contribute more fixes, but that's harder than expected.
Well I ask here where people spend their Sats or where you can use Sats and then I tweet all the answers... Unfortunately not big adoption yet.... but will make it!!!
Correct misinformation on HN / Reddit...
Created BitcoinMaxiNews.com - where you get all Bitcoin news in one place...
I write comments in stacker news
Learning, testing, using apps, there is a long way ahead for all of us to keep learning. The lightning network is going to change the world. Some are experts and others are not. 👊🏼 I want to show every single person I interact with how cool this is.
starting this with 2 other bitcoiners https://twitter.com/terminusbtc
Делаю скидку в своем интернет магазине. Если климент платит в btc
Каком магазине?
I wanted to reach out and propose an idea that I believe could help increase lightning adoption among our customers. As you know, merchants typically pay 2.9% + 30 cents for credit card usage and have accounted for this in their business model.
What if we kept the pricing the same for merchants, but offered a 2% cashback to customers instantly for using the lightning network? This way, customers would be incentivized to use the lightning network and could potentially save money on fees.
I think this could be a great way to increase adoption and encourage more people to try out the lightning network. What do you think?
deleted by author
.
.
I guess I'm making SN and Pleb Lab. I also try to participate in the Austin Bitcoin community and support friendly Bitcoin founders where I can.
deleted by author
deleted by author
Now THIS is the circular economy i was looking for
deleted by author