Zap.stream is pretty cool but we have no way of letting users sign up to the platform now which is a huge barrier.

Besides creating an account, there’s really no easy way for people to acquire sats to support creators.

To me, these 2 seem the bigger barriers atm. If we can solve both and make it an effortless process, this website has a ton of potential.

For the signup flow, I don’t think it’s too difficult. We ask for a name and we’re done. Thanks Iris! (The rest of the education can happen on the back end).

For hooking up a wallet and funding it - that’s the real challenge. 

Where do we stand on this?

1. Install cash app

2. Send fiat to cash app

3. Buy bitcoin

4. Install WoS (the only one as far as I know that will do a swap to sats for you)

5. Scan QR code to pay

Kind of a tedious process. I doubt people are going to jump hoops to do all of this at scale. Maybe some, sure, but the vast majority are likely going to NOPE! out.

How do we shortcut 1-5 to 1 easy step?

Am I missing anything?

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Alby

So alby seems to have a buy bitcoin function but it’s hidden in the web app and no link from extension. Also doesn’t seem to be globally available.

Great for wallet solutions, but the current FIAT > BTC > Lightning payments process is just lengthy for what its worth. Cash App has potential as a Fiat > Btc method, but P2P is the answer.

On ramps are tough.

The only alternatives I can think of are

- Develop an “earn sats as you watch” type system like Fountain has for podcasts (big effort, but you can just start watching and gradually earn some sats)

- Suggest a few ways where they can earn sats “for free” (posting quality content on nostr social clients, Fountain, Stacker News etc)

Why not just use the lighting feature in Cashapp?

Ya I guess you could. Never occurred to me 😂 the UI is not obvious. The moment you hit send, there is no way to select an address or scan a code (on prev screen)

True. It took some time for me to figure it out

If the purchase of Bitcoin can be replaced with purchasing Lightning.. maybe the first few steps can be ruled out.

Once people know and understand the difference between bitcoin and crypto/tokens, might be alot easier for this to occcur organically. This may also be a major hurdle as sending sats could be viewed akin to donating 'Bits' on twitch.

Maybe we could hand out 1000sats or so to every single partnered streamer or even put a QR watermark that allows people to redeem sats en masse.. in the hopes they either hodl or send it back into the circular economy.

I've been trying this by Judy (sorry I deactivated my bird app and dont know her handle)

https://streamsats.mysatoshikit.com/

Also https://lightsats.com

Will think on this one.

Kieran is already giving a 1000 day credit to every new streamer I believe

Sorry 1000 sats. Damn fat fingers

Missing mobile

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Most people nowadays watch and stream on mobile.

I could see watch but stream?

Yeah IRL/Just Chatting streams on mobile. Like TikTok streams. Not alot of people sitting at desktop computers these days.

Sounds like a different use case but interesting too.

A livestreaming platform should be for both mobile and desktop users.

Does twitch let you stream from mobile?

Yes

Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mobile-streamed twitch. They always seem to be on desktop 🤔

Look at the Just Chatting category. There are mobile streams there. Yes, on Twitch most are on desktop but practically everyone is watching streams on mobile and some are streaming on their phones, me included. On TikTok for example, they are all streaming on mobile.

Ah! I’ve never really visited that category 😂

We can watch on mobile but no login option to chat yet and layout could probably use some improvement

PV 🤙