Why not pass out cashu nuts for Halloween this year?

22k sats \ 40 comments \ @jasonb 10 Oct bitcoin

I'm WAY into Halloween.

Before you're like, "this is in the wrong territory," just check yourself and gimme a minute. Rome wasn't built in a day."

I've been giving out full size candy bars for years, partly to compete with my neighbors insane outdoor decorations, but mostly to make sure I have an audience the year when I actually hire one of my pro keyboard player buddies to sit in my foyer and play some monophonic synth along with this puppy:

Chill out territory nazis, we're getting there.

It's a reed organ, which is already spooky enough by itself. However, the top octave has hammered (like a piano) tines! It's about as creepy as you could ever ask for. It can also be pretty, and I use it for Christmas too, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. I played it last year and I'm ok on keys (main axe is trombone), but I work with some keyboard players that can melt your face. This may be the year to cash in on all those years of giving out full size candy bars.

Bitcoin time. Territory nazis rejoice.

Anyway, Bitcoin is kind of like that kid with a summer birthday, so I want to make sure to celebrate it this Halloween while I've got the neighborhood's attention. So, I would like to present to everyone here snickerbar .me. It's a fork of cash.me that makes cashus en masse for beggar's night!

All of these nuts are waiting to be cracked!

...except the one that I did individually before adding the bulk processing and the one that was actually cut out to pass out to trick or treaters. The rest of them are mostly one sat, but I'm sure you guys can look at the token and figure out which ones aren't like the others.

Thanks @BlokchainB for dropping nuts every day in the saloon. This is what made me curious about cashu in the first place, which I'm just so into right now. I had heard of it, but didn't get the use case until after seeing a few days of those drops.

I might refine this and address some bugs if other folks want to use it at their place. Lemme know. I may also make a non-halloween version if people think they might use this in other settings.

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0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

For those waiting for me to fix the glitch that wasn't showing the amount of sats in each nut, it is finished! The token tickets should look a lot better now and let people know how many sats they're actually holding when you distribute.

PLEASE know that it's still super buggy in general. Use at your own risk.

2048 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 10 Oct

This is fantastic!! Glad I can be an inspiration! The cool thing about nutting 🌰 is you can check to see if they claimed it. If they don’t you can sweep it back to your wallet!

170 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

Yeah, there are so many things that make it just so convenient and efficient. It actually reminds me that I might need to pass out a PSA with them about the difference between custodial and self-custodial funds though.

93 sats \ 1 reply \ @Golu 10 Oct

Cool Idea! Bookmarked it and I'll ask for these on a festival here in India.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

Cool! Let me know if you want me to try to customize it for the festival!

73 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheMorningStar 11 Oct

NUTS idea! Best wishes! Halloween is a great festigial there. It's quite the same like we having Ramleela in India.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

Thanks!

Tell me more! That sounds fun! Is this the festival you were talking about @Golu?

117 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 10 Oct

Cool idea! I’ll save myself some time and assume these nuts in the pictures have already been sniped by you or somebody else.

image stolen from @zapsammy

210 sats \ 7 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

Thanks!

Of all the nuts in those pictures, the only two I cashed in were the one that cut out and the one that’s a full page. The rest are for the scavengers on sn and nostr (although I think my cross posting failed so maybe just here).

Now are they worth your time? That’s a different story. My goal with this is similar to what I believe @BlokchainB is going for: curiosity. I’m hoping some parents are going to have a eureka moment when they’re helping their kids go through their stash this year. There are also enough deadbeat parents in my neighborhood that I hope some kids even figure it out themselves… I’ll keep you posted.

36 sats \ 6 replies \ @Scroogey 10 Oct

The only one I could scan (the image resolution isn't great) was the full page one, but it decodes to "ur:bytes/1033-21/lpcfaaa...", which cashu.me doesn't recognize. I must be doing something wrong.

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

Here's a few from the "printed" pdf. It looks like some of these haven't been harvested yet. To reiterate, there is no serious amount of money in any of these. Most are literally 1 sat. But yeah, I hope cashu ends up being something you can do. It seems to be the fastest and easiest way to send ecash, albeit not secure.

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scroogey 10 Oct

Here's one from me:

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

Snagged it! Dropping the hot potato below.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 10 Oct

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @ek 10 Oct

Does it always decode to that?

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 10 Oct

The large one, yes.

I was now able to get three from the first sheet of small ones by manually increasing contrast, they all decoded to "cashu...". Thanks!

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 11 Oct

I’m assuming you printed these yourself and not with a service?

I’d be interested in printing these on professional quality card stock but not sure how to do that in a secure fashion

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

https://github.com/ttooccooll/snickerbar.me

I made them with this abominable Frankenstein version of cash.me that I forked and then mutilated on my experimenting table. Instead of one token, you can make ten at a time with different amounts. They all are Halloween colors and have the message you see in the pics.

When I first started, they actually originally also said how many sats each token was worth right on those little cards. You can see in the text in the pics that I messed that up again somewhere along the way. It’s all a work in progress, but I feel pretty encouraged based on how this post has been received and may even deploy it so you don’t have to worry about running any of the software yourself.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 11 Oct

Awesome idea

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

Thanks!

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @SatsMate 11 Oct

Love the idea! Just be careful giving out of your home address as people may know you are a bitcoiner by doing this.

We need alot more of this!!!! I don't get trick or treaters where I live or else I would be doing this! :D

34 sats \ 3 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

Thanks for the kind words and, yeah, thanks for looking out too! I intend to make an ADT style sign explaining multi-sig soon. I feel like there’s a serious opportunity in that not just for security, but back-handed orange pilling too.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 11 Oct

Are you serious about the ADT style multi-sig signage? Would love to hear more about the it when you get it up.

I bought some fake (but very realistic looking) ADT signage for a previous house. Lots of houses in the neighborhood were broken into, we weren't, I like to think it was the fake signage.

34 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

I am! @dagny761 posted this a little bit ago in anticipation to the election and a bunch of stackers wrote, "but also make sure everyone knows that you're going to shoot them when they come for your bitcoin." I'm unfairly hyperbolizing those responses, but the point is, I think it's classier (and also more effective) to flaunt my multi-sig than my weapons. All this to say, yes, this is on my real to-do list (unless somebody else makes one I can use first).

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 11 Oct

Looking forward to hearing more. I think advertising that your holdings are multisig, in whatever form that takes, will become a big deal soon. Would be good to hear more about the creative details that people are coming up with.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @LowK3y19 10 Oct

I get no trick or treaters at my place so tempted to put a sign free sats with candy to see if anyone knocks

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

Awesome! Let me know if you get some takers.

Also, I’m sure someone here is gonna say it (actually something about saying you lots of guns) anyway, so I’ll go ahead and suggest you also mention in the sign that your personal stash is protected by multi-sig. I certainly am also gonna make sure that any would-be boogie monsters can tell the difference between these treats and my multi-city, multi-signature savings.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Wumbo 10 Oct

What a great treat to give out to kids on Halloween.

(All the SN users are currently searching through jasonb past post to find out where they need to take their kids this Halloween)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

ha!

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 10 Oct

Joking aside, Very cool concept, keep up the good work.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Oct

Thanks! Let me know if you think of a tweek that would make it more useful for you personally.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Mange2149 11 Oct

What is really driving me nuts, though, are family and friends suddenly showing interest in bitcoin.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @crrdlx 11 Oct

Curious because I've been considering a sorta similar thing, more of a hidden treasure hunt... What if the Cashu tokens are never redeemed? Are the sats just waiting in limbo forever? 1 sat no big deal (though I hate to see sats burnt), but what if the treasure was say 10k sats? I guess the thing to do would be redeem the sats myself? (Which would require me remembering they're there! )

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @ravener 11 Oct

I think it would make sense to have a backup of them, and print out some sort of an 'expiration date' where if they don't claim it by then the author should be able to claim it back.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

@BlockchainB could explain more, but the short answer is yes. You'd just take back the sats yourself.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter 11 Oct

Cool idea! Why Cashu? Can't we just do it with any Lightning wallet?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ravener 11 Oct

LN invoices expire pretty quickly though compared to e-cash, or am I forgetting something?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

Yeah, and also ecash nuts are outbound and have no specific recipient.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

Thanks! With a lightning invoice, you're actually requesting sats. This is a way to give away a very small amount of sats with no fees and no specific recipient. Basically, whoever finds a cashu nut can cash it in. I think after Halloween I'm going to rename this project breadcrumbs because it's similar to leaving tons of breadcrumbs in the forest that all lead to the orange pill.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mdominicorobin24 11 Oct

Trick or treating is on a whole new level. But of course it defends on the higher ups.