We’ve refreshed our @LightningPiggy creations page! Check it out here: https://www.lightningpiggy.com/inthewild/ and see the amazing designs our community has shared.

Have a ⚡️🐽 creation you’d like to show off? Share your photos with us here, or send them to oink@lightningpiggy.com. And here’s a fun bonus: include a scannable payment QR code in your image, and you’ll earn extra zaps!

‪nostr:npub10efcj7x65z2ak6vd69xr8f2hvqwuaqrhlygl3yqa4y63hfvc02mqwzaeh3 is where all the magic happens, and we’re extremely grateful to everyone working on it 🐽‬

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Discover how LightningPiggy helps kids save on a sound money standard using LNbits technology!

https://news.lnbits.com/news/leveraging-lnbits-and-lnurlpay-for-lightningpiggy

We’re thrilled to have a ‘stall’ at the inaugural Learning Bitcoin event next Saturday, September 28th, in Victoria, BC 🇨🇦!

There will be amazing speakers and practical hands-on learning about Bitcoin, its technology, and world changing applications. The event also provides a great opportunity to network with experts and enthusiasts, deepening your knowledge in a rapidly evolving space.

Free entry for under 13s. See you there!

We had an amazing time at @BTCPrague’s Kids’ Corner, where we built piggies and created some unique characters. The children were incredibly creative and worked well together. Check out their proof-of-work (shared with permissions).

#LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

https://m.primal.net/InDw.mov

Pig’s don’t fly? Well this little piggy has just landed in Prague 🎶

Being your kids to our design and build challenges at @BTCPrague this Friday and Saturday ⚡️🐽

https://m.primal.net/IguN.mov

Join us Today at 3 PM for a LightningPiggy Workshop @BitcoinArnhem! The piggybank for your kids.

The first 10 participants will receive a special Nostr surprise.

Don’t miss out—just head down to the basement to join the fun! ⚡️🐽

We love this app for #BitcoinKids and the perfect companion to the meatware piggy ⚡️🐽

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Hi Ben, This is amazing. The perfect app companion for the meatware piggy ⚡️🐽

Let's get testing!

Did you know you can setup recurring lightning payments to your LightningPiggy using nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm ZapPlanner?

Pocket money has never been so sound and easy.

https://zapplanner.albylabs.com

#LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

Piggy banks have been around for hundreds of years. Here’s a rather cute early example kept in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK.

LightningPiggy is the next logical step to introduce kids to saving on a sound money standard. We’re proud to be the first bitcoin lighting piggy bank. And we’re free and open source.

Build your own: https://www.lightningpiggy.com/build

#LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #FOSS #BuildInPublic #bitcoin

Our #GeyserFund page is now back-up and running. Here’s the link 👇

https://geyser.fund/project/lightningpiggy

We’re thankful to everyone who has supported our open source project to make #bitcoin the standard for every child 🙏⚡️🐽

We’re thrilled to formally announce two updates to the LightningPiggy code. The first a major update (v2) launched at the Bitcoin Atlantis conference in Madeira earlier this month. And the second update (V2.1.1) with minor improvements released yesterday.

What’s new with V2.1.1.

User experience improvements:

• Support for CHF currency symbol (Fr).

• Support for German, Dutch and Spanish weekdays.

• Additional boot slogans.

• Only the first character of weekdays will be displayed.

Fixes

• Display artefacts below horizontal line removed.

• “NA" placeholder for unknown currency symbols removed.

Credit: https://github.com/ThomasFarstrike

What’s new with V2.0.0.

Extended battery life:

• Infinite wifi retry, infinite HTTP response waiting time and other long battery-draining exceptions are addressed with a "smart" watchdog.

• The wake-up frequency now adapts based on a seven-point profile correlated with battery voltage.

User experience improvements:

• Realtime balance and payment updates also happen under battery power after manual wake-ups, thanks to new awake/sleep status decision logic.

• Notification code enhancements that help the user to easily troubleshoot any possible errors.

• On-screen indication when the device is sleeping vs awake.

• New on-screen software update visibility.

• New startup screen logo by Bitko.

Optional new features:

• Fiat balance and Bitcoin price with configurable fiat currency (USD, EUR, DKK,...)

• Random boot-up 'quotes and memes' with configurable prelude.

• Show last updated day and time.

Removed features:

• Disabled HAL sensor value as it wasn't useful.

Credits: https://github.com/ThomasFarstrike with valuable new feature and improvement contributions from https://github.com/lonerookie

Build your own: https://www.lightningpiggy.com/build

Chat with our community: https://t.me/LightningPiggy

Join our shadowy super coders: https://github.com/LightningPiggy

These little piggies are going to @BitcoinAtlantis

Credit lonerookie for creating the hardware based on the character donated to the project by @satoshigallery

#LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

We’re excited to launch our third bounty to encourage more devs to join the project and to ultimately bring more piggies to market.

We’re looking for sponsors or donors to boost these sat amounts. Please get in touch if you would like to support our mission to make sats the savings standard for every child.

If you’re a C programmer and familiar with developing FOSS projects using Arduino, join us!

👉 https://www.lightningpiggy.com/github-issues-blitz/

PROJECT: LightningPiggy

BOUNTY: 1,000,000 sats total to be claimed

CODENAME: GitHub Issues Blitz

TASKS:

#1 Battery drains because of infinite retries in case of failures

https://github.com/LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy/issues/1

Bounty: 350K sats

#2 Smarter (or no) sleep depending on battery

https://github.com/LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy/issues/2

Bounty: 200K sats

#3 Indicate when the device is sleeping vs awake

https://github.com/LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy/issues/3

Bounty: 150K sats

#4 Show update notifications on the display

https://github.com/LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy/issues/4

Bounty: 150K sats

#5 Make notification code more generic

https://github.com/LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy/issues/5

Bounty: 150K sats

Notes:

* Successful completion of each task will be decided by a simple majority of the core team, defined here: https://www.lightningpiggy.com/credits/

* GitHub issue #7 “Show on-chain balance” is tabled for introduction as part of a future ‘multiple screens’ update.

* Target deadline Feb 25th, 2024 (in time for the Bitcoin Atlantis conference in Madeira).

* If you reach an advanced stage working on one of the tasks listed above let the LP Telegram group know, so as to help reduce duplication of effort.

* Sponsors/Donors please contact oink@lightningpiggy.com

#STEMM #FinancialEducation #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

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Out with the old, in with the new.

We're excited to launch the new "Mini" edition 3D printed case to house your sound money piggy bank, available now for download.

https://www.lightningpiggy.com/cases/

#bitcoin #lightning #bitcoinkids