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37 sats \ 10 replies \ @ek 15h \ on: SN Orange Pill App Marketing? meta
@orangepillapp why can’t I pay with lightning? How private are these fiat payments?
Edit: found this answer in the FAQ:
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There should be weekly subscription options not just monthly and now we don't even have monthly for btc subscription, how does that even look?
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unfortunately there is no way to do recurring payments in bitcoin, so we would have to send you an email every month, which is a terrible UX
hopefully bolt12 takes off
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I think not being able to pay with bitcoin for 1 month at all is worse UX.
You also don't have to send a mail every month, you can just give them a lightning invoice when they open the app and their subscription expired, no?
That's how Stacker News handles recurring payments for territories.
hopefully bolt12 takes off
How is bolt12 going to fix this problem? It's for receiving, not sending.
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hopefully bolt12 takes off
BOLT12 enables recurring payments on the Lightning Network by allowing reusable offers and automatic invoice generation
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he sender still has to pay the invoice manually, no? Afaict, your UX problem isn't the receiving side, it's on the side of the sender.
You're right that with BOLT12, the sender normally needs to manually approve each payment.
However, custodial wallets could easily automate this on behalf of the user.
Since the wallet controls the keys, it could fetch the invoice from the reusable offer and automatically pay it on a schedule — fully automating recurring payments.
fiat payments are managed by apple and google and, thankfully, they don't share any information with us
of course we'd prefer memberships to be bought in bitcoin, but most bitcoiners don't want to spend btc 🤷♂️
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