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Whenever I see a project, website, or simple tool being made available and they have a "buy me a coffee" or "leave a tip" button my brain always immediately pops open my Alby... and then i click to find they want a credit card and all my details and I want to slap somebody.

Why are we still doing this? How do they not know that Lightning is super easy and takes a second? I refuse to tip anyone for any project if they don't use BTC/LN now, its just stupid at this point. That I have to put in all my credit card details in, put myself at risk, while an absurd fee gets taken to send you 50¢ of the $1 I tried to send?

Just no. I'm done tipping fiat.

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Love is Bitcoin 💜⚡ 2y ago

We have getalby plugged in for zaps. ⚡💜

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davies 2y ago

Imagine how much the news industry could make for charging per article in Lightning instead of monthly subscription. It may even end the whole clickbait divisiveness of the last ten years because the incentive model will have changed.

Josh 2y ago

Amen Johnson

Zapgur 2y ago

Let’s say I own a website and know close to nothing on how to set up this, what is my go to?

acronym 2y ago

One easy way is to get set up with Alby, you will then have a page like this where people can donate:

https://getalby.com/p/acronym

https://getalby.com

Zapgur 2y ago

Thanks, I actually feel a little dumb that the answer was so straightforward, I guess the next step is to learn how to accept payments for specific services with invoices

Guy Swann 2y ago

Check out BTCPayServer there, or run a node and check out LNBits. The latter is a simpler setup with a lot of simple extension style features 👇

Zapgur 2y ago

Very cool, will check it out, thanks again :)

Guy Swann 2y ago

The very fastest way would be to use a service until you dig further into the details and withdraw occasionally to a non-custodial wallet.

Example setup that will work in minutes:

• I'm a huge fan of the Alby browser extension. Download and create an account. You will receive what looks like an email address underneath the "accounts" section that ends with "...@getalby.com"

• Copy/Paste that address onto a website or in a tip jar window for whatever you are hoping to receive donations for.

• Then download the Phoenix wallet on your mobile phone (its a non-custodial lightning wallet)

• Backup your seed/wallet on Phoenix, then when you have $20 or so worth of tips in your Alby after a few people send you some sats, send it to your Phoenix wallet.

• Rinse and repeat

When your Phoenix wallet has a lot of sats, a meaningful amount, then send it to your cold storage simply by putting in a BTC address and it will automatically do a swap for you.

AJ Nobody ⚡🏴 2y ago

Seconded.

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rod ✪ 2y ago

e76e7052... 2y ago

Yeah, and why is “librepay” not bitcoin enabled?!

Parman - Activate OP_GFY now!! 2y ago

Excellent

Gigi 2y ago

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Bh. 2y ago

They can use lightning coffee, too:

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https://lncoffee.me

Created this site to have a nice way to start with lightning.

Petr 2y ago

Its coming just not fast enough

OgFOMK ArTS 2y ago

I gave up PayPal last year after 20 years and I see similar things. Sometimes I use Fold but small transactions would be better.

When my node says I routed a transaction and I get 1.023 sats I am really happy.

Sats really are a miracle.

Lightning nodes for self hosting aren't easy (for people who over think things... Me) but they are rewarding.

Learning to be the bank is exciting.

JoySun 2y ago

I tried to zap you for this comment but it says invoice valid blah blah

Ferdinand Hodler ⚡️ 2y ago

Yesss 💪🏼

WINTER ☩ HODLER 2y ago

Yes.

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₿logging₿itcoin 2y ago

We are becoming an intolerant minority.

That is bullish AF.

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Bill Cypher 2y ago

Do you have a plan to help us make the same switch? Specifically switching away from patreon as a producer.

Guy Swann 2y ago

Yes, its just amongst a lot of other projects and the few times i come back to it I've hit a wall that it hard to get across.

That said, I do intend to have a different feed at some point. Might just mean i hire someone else on a technical front who can accomplish some of these side projects I've wanted that have stayed half done for far too long.🤔

Guy Swann 2y ago

The problem isn’t the ability to receive donations via Lightning obviously. It’s building a system that allows recurring/subscription based payments over Lightning.

Would be REALLY nice to have BOLT12 for that… cough cough