Introducing Boardwalk Cash - the first dollar-based Cashu wallet built on top of #bitcoin and connected to #nostr.
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.
is this done with some sort of a short like stablesats?
could an ecash token create a roundabout way of buying non-kyc bitcoin? like, as if it's an in-game token. but you happen to be able to swap it for Lightning bitcoin 🤔
I agree and disagree.
The biggest impediment to Nostr at the moment is the poor quality of clients.
I’ve used most of them to this point and to be very nice - they are in their nascent phase and many are unusable.
Nostr’s method of identity transfer doesn’t interoperate between Web2 and Web3 protocols well.
I’m less worried about this issue because nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 is working on it and he has a clear understanding of the task at hand.
I don’t think the next killer feature is a predicate for Nostr’s success.
I think it’s a function of interoperability and leveraging existing protocols to transition users in the simplest possible way to the new paradigm that is Nostr.
This is why we’re creating Letr.co
SMTP has provided the most ubiquitous and seamless method of communication since the inception of the internet.
Not only did it initiate many methods of identity management but it also provided a protocol that was for the most part immune to censorship.
Email (SMTP) allowed you to own your audience and move that audience to the best tool that fit your means of distribution.
Most if not all of the preceding comments seem to be core tenets of Nostr.
Own your following, own your content, own value transfer, and distribute information freely.
Last but not least - zaps have a major future.
For that future to exist bitcoin can’t be an investment tool - it must be a means to transfer value (and not to just buy a Lambo).
It needs to be transactional. This is where zaps has a potential leg up.
A sat needs to reflect the value of a penny, dime, quarter, or even a dollar.
Not a moving target that represents fractions of a fairly volatile (no shade bitcoin bros) investment vehicle.
Saying all that - over the next few months our goal with Letr is to attract millions of new users to Nostr by giving them a familiar home.
A place where there isn’t a complex language to interpret in order to use the tool - where we can focus onboarding around the quality of a community and content rather than technology.
I hope I haven’t offended too many with this Nostr rant and I appreciate that I’m a noob but I’m here to help.
⚡️❤️ Billy Boozer
good luck with letr. out of curiosity, what's wrong with primal and amethyst?
I used to say this but got flu for the first time this year. Took forever to get over it.
Do we have zap splits? Can't see an option.
How did you recover it?
Purple pill the farmers
Yeah I think you just auto zapped x 10
Could the bridge auto populate the lightning address field with npub.cash address? nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 ?
Of course, I agree. I just mean it's slightly harder for nostr as people will be searching for the protocol, which has a million different options for clients.
But as you say, making it very quick and easy for them to get started on nostr.com would be a great first step.
Mastodon is the implementation though, not the protocol. I'm guessing that noobs don't search for activitypub. So it would be like people searching for Primal, which would probably be fine.
But I think you're right wrt the landing page. Have a button that either lets them get started instantly, or choose from a list of clients.
nostr:npub1g0587hzzckcncxfm78n0996qe2s58nspy29wf02tqcj5sdzcpj4q6j40hv is criminally under-followed on Nostr.
I highly recommend you check her out. nostr:note16g5ufzg23kjpdclqeqj4qpraxrl9ev22mx9ujz6kaj8hafv7l76sjjraq8
Possibly because she doesn't really interact
ATH in GBP?
Zaps becoming expensive