210 sats \ 11 replies \ @rolznz 6 Oct 2022 freebie \ on: Gift sats without losing them ✨ bitcoin
As a very simple POC, lnbits with a couple of extensions could do most of the heavy lifting (creating user wallets by phone/email, eventual lnwithdraw link). Would need a simple PWA and backend to communicate with lnbits and manage the tips. I like the idea of giving someone a tip they can just scan with very little commitment and time and no knowledge of btc. I had this thought when I tipped my hairdresser the other day - I can’t be bothered investing the time so just tipped them in fiat
I could potentially help with the development side - let me know if you want to get in touch.
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This community is so awesome :)
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It really is an amazing community 🧡
By the way, @rolznz ended up joining me on this venture! 😎
So we enrolled in the BOLT🔩FUN Legends of Lightning ⚡️ Tournament and we were able to recruit other mamebers to work on the project 🙂
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Would love to hear any feedback you have.
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Thanks for the update ! Will check it out.
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just posted an update on week 3 of our progress
#87590
Also just loaded 1000 sats for you to test it out yourself
https://lgt.st/santorin
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Amazing, let me know what’s the easiest way to connect!
I got in contact yesterday with someone at https://getalby.com he pitched it to the team and they liked the idea and can possibly help also with development, design and other things!
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Cool! I’m on Twitter (same username) - you could send me a DM there.
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Yes that’s what I thought of the easiest way to get something working, I’ve played around with LNBits, those guys have been adding some amazing extensions for it, I just don’t have the full knowledge of honking up the API’s and what not.
And like you said, the whole idea of this is to be able to quickly tip or gift someone Sats but not have to invest the time to do a full onboarding and most importantly have the assurance of recovering those Sats in case the person does not show interest or initiative in learning more about what to do with them.
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Great idea. I second the idea of using lnbits. It can do most of what you're asking for. Also, no setup, per se, is required. Basically you can just spawn a sub account for the tipee and let them scan a QR code which brings them to that wallet. The mobile interface is very clean and easy and no install is required. I'd definitely start your POC with that approach and then see what if anything is missing. Likely you can implement a plugin to lnbits to fill in any gaps, or perhaps incorporate all of the onboarding functionality into a single new plugin for simplicity.
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We're in week 2 of the BOLT🔩FUN Legends of Lightning ⚡️ Tournament and I'll be posting weekly updates here so everyone is also involved. 🙂
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Would love to hear any feedback you have.
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Completely agree, Ben Arc and contributors have done an amazing job building LNBits and its many extensions they have available!
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