Introducing Boardwalk Cash - the first dollar-based Cashu wallet built on top of #bitcoin and connected to #nostr.

https://BoardwalkCash.com

We now have stablecash on bitcoin - completely interoperable with the lightning network.

Share your lightning address or invoice to receive dollars. Paste a lightning address or invoice to send dollars.

Boardwalk Cash connects to any nostr client via NWC. Zap dollars on nostr apps like nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg or on Discord with our Zap Bot.

This is a very early product and there are not many public mints, so use at your own risk. Yet, we’re excited to show some of what ecash and nostr can offer for advancing #bitcoin payments.

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incredible work, congratulations on the launch!

True If Big!!! 🎉

nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwxnostr:nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h

Amazing. Good sir, no mints show with the USD filter.

https://bitcoinmints.com/?show=cashu&units=usd

Try refreshing the browser once. We're updating it now. He's the Mint URL of the current public USD mint:

https://stablenut.umint.cash

Smooth as 🧈

Can we please stop calling fiat stable?

not yet. am still accumulating. dxy is gonna tumble for a decade soon so just dont rush it pl pls pls.

Cuckbucks it is

I like slave credits

Fiat coins

is this done with some sort of a short like stablesats?

Yikes I did a send without saving the token, money gone? Haha

How to get mint to support USD?

Which NUT supports USD?

The Cashu v1 spec supports any unit and mint/melt method. Can be found in the mint/melt settings of the mint ie. https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/blob/main/04.md#settings

Thanks for sharing

I guess my specific question is;

What is the exact line of code(s) do I need to enter to support USD?

Trying to do this for our own mints

1. Add a new active keyset with unit ‘usd’

2. Convert amount in mint quote request to sats based on current exchange rate, then create invoice for that sat amount.

3. Convert sat from invoice to usd in melt quote request and return usd amount needed to pay the invoice.

Happy to help if you want to get on a call

Excellent thank you! I'll take you up on that for sure!

Is the idea that mints will hold physical USD, to back the ecash?

How do I NWC back to Primal? Works great, though!

very cool.

🤯 My brain can't compute what stablecash on bitcoin even means. How is it possible? Is there a technical deepdive I can watch/listen to?

Found this: https://github.com/toneloc/stable-channels. Looks like a reasonable explanation.

404?

Hmm… not 404 for me. The github links to a thread of Twitter if you want to try there: https://x.com/tonklaus/status/1729567459579945017

here

I look forward to a day when this is super easy to use for my grandmother

That's nuts

🍿

nostr:npub1cd0l3s6qgj0s6690rtkys39mgj5upwxpm4856nhmce0pyqu6xj9qh7xlvx estoy probando lo

Pude recibir, pero no puedo enviar

nostr:nevent1qqs0rk7rltsx45jwyls53fs2dcla5vgcwuh7p4zsx7lx9yjf038thecpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzps6llrp5q3ylp4527xhvfpztk39fczuvrh20f480h3j7zgpe5dy2qvzqqqqqqywqgydh

LFG 🔥

fucking gangsta 👏👏👏

Sheesh. Just like that.

👀 👀

Fascinating! How difficult would it be to either add other national currencies (say the Mexican peso or the Japanese yen)?

As someone else said in the comments, they would want their grandmother to be able to use something like this, so having sats dominated in the local currency would make that way easier.

Just a note the say that won work XD

Its just another trap

https://void.cat/d/65r6yM2wMiyJNePPexbaYc.webp

This sounds like a private, cheap way to short Bitcoin

The Zap Bot isn’t working :(

Is the BTC sent to mints overcollateralized to issue new USD tokens? Or does an actual exchange happen (with the mint probably needing to cover the trade elsewhere)?