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!
https://video.nostr.build/5a202e6829e21b665480dfc46ac8ff542c2cd69a3595fa221c4652036a141834.mp4
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¢)
A more complete explanation of how we did it is available here:
Would the setup for this be quicker with ecash?
No but it would have been cheaper. I had to pay phoenix a setup fee to open my channel
I guess what I mean is with ecash, you wouldn't have to setup anything, it's just printing the tokens?
I could have just printed the tokens directly from the mint, instead of running lnbits, but the tokens would have worked with fewer wallets -- and if I wanted to retain self custody of the money I would have to run the mint anyway, might as well run lnbits
Forgot about the wallet stuff
No
But you just gave a new project idea: it would be cool to have a tool where you can paste a set of one or more ecash qr codes, and it will make a shareable link that you can give to anyone; if they visit your link, they see an interface that shows them the amount in the qr code and a Send button to send it via lightning to any LN compatible wallet.
I meant I forgot about the wallet compatiblity part.
That is AWESOME...so fun.
