Sometimes you got to reach the point, like Nietze, where you dance at the edge of the void.
Because there is a void. If you don't see the void, you haven't really looked deep enough.
Pickle Rick and future-seeing crystal Morty.
If you know what I mean, ur my kind of people haha :D
He did it again!
I would just shift all letters to left by 1 🤪
I will have to update my screenshot for payto. This address is definitely more sexy :)
❤️⚡"Value 4 value" is cool, but many podcasters don't fully understand the concept. It's not just about enabling bitcoin streaming and boosts for your podcast and be done with it.
Important parts are:
✨ Spend time every episode reading the boosts (messages with sats) you received from your listeners. This creates completely different kind of connection between you (the creator) and your audience.
✨ Communicate and explain to your listeners the importance of sending value with boosts (or streaming) to you. It's not donations. It's giving value back for what users /listeners find valuable. We are all crippled by 20 years of ad-based hell Internet. People need to hear your need to change that in your podcast.
Obviously, but probably worth saying explicitly - move away from advertisement based model. You can do that gradually - start replacing some ad slots with v4v.
Here are few examples of well executed value 4 value podcasts :
Linux Unplugged
https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov
Self hosted
https://fountain.fm/show/LxGQPEpBqTDLxF4d6qC5
These guys spend decent amount of time each episode reading and reacting to boosts and they also communicate clearly why it is important.
Do you know any other podcasts that execute value 4 value well?
Bolt 12 is getting popular 🥳🥳
If you have CLN and want to pay to bolt12 from command line, I did a little tool for that. It can also pay to Lightning Address and even the new DNS based Lightning Address (BIP353).
Take my love, take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.
Take me out to the black,
Tell them I ain't comin back.
Burn the land and boil the sea,
You can't take the sky from me.
There's no place, I can be,
Since I've found Serenity.
And you can't take the sky from me.
Updates on Helm Wallet:
1. New landing page at https://helm-wallet.com
2. Set Notifications to be notified about app updates and received transactions
3. New Point of Sale (PoS) mode 👇
When I tried the wallet last time, I needed to specify amount to receive. Can you make it optional so that the sender decides? Bolt11 invoices can be created to "any" amount.
I will, thank you for sharing.
I shrink 10x every 21s until I'm an atom - The Micro Universe
If you use cli and don't have connected external wallet (for example for security reasons) you can pay regural LN invoices but there is no convenient way how to pay to Lightning Address - you would have to do a bunch of http request manually. So basically this does it for you.
Release "2024-06-17 - test with coffee money"
file: payto-2024-06-17-linux-x64.tar.xz
sha256sum: a7d323b76b16cbb1bee437c4bf6d401a02ff744cfe7c2c6fd690eaec1b8dcd58
I wanted to be able to pay to lightning address directly from terminal using CLN (Core Lightning), so I created this:
Cool 🧡 I also created few more bolt12 related issues on github today, for example decode command fails to parse one offer and thinks it is rune instead. Another offer fails to decode for unknown reason and yet another offer I can't fetch invoice because offer doesn't have description:
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/created_by/urza
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