Meet the Bitcoin Piñata!
We think it's the first piñata ever that pays you bitcoin. Myself and a bunch of other bitcoiners bashed it yesterday in Guadalajara during a Posada (Mexican Christmas party). So much fun!
The piñata held 51 qrs: sticky paper on black foam (all bought for $2 in total at a paper store). We had 100k sats in prizes divided up like this:
1 qr code worth 22,500 sats ($22.50)
10 worth 4000 ($4)
10 worth 2000 ($2)
10 worth 1000 ($1)
10 worth 500 (50¢)
10 worth 250 (25¢)
The day before the event, I bought 1 month of service on a VPS for $5 (paid via lightning, I used Skhron) where I set up an lnbits instance and hooked it up to a phoenixd instance (I just ran both on the same server). I made the 51 qr codes using the Quick Vouchers button on the Lnurlw extension for lnbits. I loaded up the phoenixd instance with 120_000 sats (the extra 20k was for testing and to pay any routing fees incurred during the game).
I tested the setup with some of the bitcoiners at HackerGarage and it worked, so we printed the stickers on regular sticker paper, stuck them to some foam, and cut them into squares. That part took about ten minutes. Then we just filled a custom-designed piñata with them and let people bash it!
I am pleased to announce that all the sats were redeemed within 1 hour. This was partly because we informed everyone to use a wallet that supports LNURLw. We got this list of them:
Alby, Balance of Satoshis, BitBanana, Bitkit, Blixt, BlueWallet, Breez, Clams, CoinCorner, coinos, Fountain, LifPay, lipa wallet, LNbits, LightningTipBot, Mash, Muun, Phoenix, Pouch.ph, ShockWallet, OBW, OneKey, ThunderHub, Wallet of Satoshi, Zap Android, Zap Desktop, Zap iOS, ZBD Discord, ZBD Extension, ZBD Telegram, ZEBEDEE, Zeus
Which we got from here:
So what do you think?