Wow, #[0] Athenut sounds like an incredible innovation in the world of privacy-preserving web search! Combining the power of Kagi and Cashu to offer a seamless and secure search experience fueled by Bitcoin payments is truly groundbreaking.

The concept of paying for individual searches with ecash, without the need for creating accounts or revealing personal information, provides users with a level of privacy rarely seen in today's digital landscape. It's like taking back control over your online interactions while ensuring anonymity and security.

And kudos to the creators for incorporating a Cashu wallet seamlessly into Athenut, making Lightning payments smooth and effortless for users. The simplicity of paying for searches without any unnecessary complexity is indeed a game-changer.

Error 402 better watch out because Athenut is here to shake things up and redefine how we approach privacy-focused web searching. Here's to embracing freedom in the digital realm and paving the way for more innovations like this! 🌐🔒💡

You can pay for Kagi with bitcoin. I do it. I think they even have Lightning.

Nice, just tried it! Very clean, worked great.

Strong supporter of Kagi (they need to be on here!!). Kagi search and AI plus the Orion browser they built (browser is Mac only)!

Very cool, happy I didn't renew my yearly kagi subscription now😄

Tried it. It's NUTS!

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It’s high time the normies learn about this too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983630

#asknostr please upvote this on HN.

Imagine SEO agencies trying to hack results on this lol. Fee’s would be incredible

Huge shoutout to nostr:npub1qjgcmlpkeyl8mdkvp4s0xls4ytcux6my606tgfx9xttut907h0zs76lgjw for coming up with the idea and making it happen. I helped design the front end. Leaned heavily on Cursor AI. I generated some code and tried to make it work. Sometimes the code worked, sometimes it didn't. I just kept messing around until it eventually sort of worked. Learned a lot along the way. Coding is fun. Feels good to be able to contribute on this plane.

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Will probably end up using this.

Okay, that's bad ass.

THIS IS LIT

Pretty damn cool. Nice job.

of course, been using Kagi for a year with a Simplelogin alias and paying through LN.

how much does each search cost?

is this allowed by their terms?

Just a funny note from Kagi FAQ. "We need your email so that we email you should you choose to close down the account" 😜

Yes yes yes yes...I've been wanting this for like, forever

I paid 41 sats and did a search, then I paid another 41 sats however it would not let me to search again. I won't sent bailiffs, but that thing should be improved.

Cool! I’ll check it out. I am a Kagi user and currently pay in sats via OpenNode. They added that feature about a year ago or so

Search Token to the MOOOOONNN! 🚀 🚀 🚀

What's the benefit of paid search engines? I mean they still collect your data in some form if they are claiming an ai on the kagi side

the name! how do you even? say that ?

3¢ per search is not trivial

Why just search, when you can search At the Nut...

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How can pay for searches could be beneficial to people?

If I do not have to login how can athenut identify me across multiple devices?

Can I use just the current session with a cookie?

Thanks

It's almost twice as expensive as paying for Kagi directly, but I think it's worth it to use athenut when I actually need higher quality results and continue using duckduckgo when I'm just using it to find specific pages. The latter constitutes the majority of my web searches.

This is the way and why I think cashu is a game changer. I've implemented a similar concept in my education technology app but the whole idea is that being able to decentralize subscriptions in favor of monetizing user experiences makes the internet way, WAY more awesome and interesting.

The reason I do it in edtech is because I think generating scholarships with learning is interesting, but in general most users DON'T want subscriptions. They want Bitcoin to be more usable and this is pretty much how it's done.

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my mind is being blown. as a kagi user I heartily approve.

Just tried out, very fun

this is too damn beautifully good🤯🤯🤯

How much does it cost per search?

Looks like it generates LN invoices