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Actually that was our first idea, but the practicality and security aspects of actually printing and distribution real cards.... the more we thought about it, the less attractive that got...
We just launched these gift cards a couple days ago. And -- they're not physical (although you could print them).... they're just PNG images!
And the second "explainer" is a bit more funny. It's a Rizful gift card. Very simple to understand, and clearly shows the user that the gift card is denominated in something called "Satoshis"... which are a fraction of a Bitcoin!
BTW.. as of right now, nobody has claimed this card, you can claim it to test it out ;)
We have two "explainers". The first is an extremely basic one-page "intro to Bitcoin" which can posted or sent easily. This:
Those of us who are passionate about Bitcoin want to educate "normies" about all kinds of things: "sound money", "uncensorable", "freedom tech"....
BUT -- most people are totally not ready for that. They've got much more basic questions like: "How can I own less than one Bitcoin?"
I suggest we back up and focus on very basic questions like this.
How do we teach people that Bitcoin is divisible into 100,000,000 satoshi, per BTC?
We have an idea.
There are a variety of terrible solutions to choose from. Solana seems to be the least bad -- the fees are incredibly low, so at least you're not giving money to the Solana scammers when you send USDT. Similarly, USDC seems to be most terrible, so we chose USDT.
Yes, it's an experiment, we have had a few users -- not sure where they are but likely in the "global south" -- Africa, Asia, etc -- who say they really need to be able to make small payments in USDT. Our idea was to try it out, and provide lots of "warnings" along the way. To be honest so far it's had very, very minimal usage. Might be something we'll abandon. Was interesting to implement and to learn about the various terrible existing solutions for stablecoins....
Hi, so your issue is that payments TO @Geyser fail... right? any chance you can contact us -- https://megalithic.me/contact -- the easiest problems to solve in Lightning are usually CONSISTENT problems like this, like "everytime I do _____, it fails" .... so if we can boil it down to this, that would be super-interesting as a test case, and we'd like to see if we can fix it...... thanks!
Ah ok. Those of us that run NWC and Lightning services would obviously like to know the issue if it is an exploit that could impact other services. Then again if I ran coinos.io I doubt I would want to reveal the problem... just revealing an issue like this can be a security issue in itself!
@SwapMarket this screenshot you posted, of the "security incident" -- this is old, right? or it's a new screenshot?
Looks like that is SOME of the necessary code, but since there is no public specification for the Spark server.... it's mostly useless. Anyway, as you say, it's a closed system, David Marcus is going to decide who can run it. Again, similar to like Solana or Tron or something, totally on-point for that kind of top-down ecosystem -- perfect for building the gambling solutions that LightSpark is working on, but totally uncool for serious Bitcoin/Lightning apps.
Yes. And this is such a critical fact: "One Bitcoin can be broken up into 100,000,00 pieces"..!