lnbits-legend VS bitrequest

Presenting LNBits!!!!

Recurring Bitcoin payments over lightning are coming - with recent announcements from lnbits (here) and CoinCorner (here)

If you take a look at the free, open source, off-the-shelf software LNBits (lnbits.com) there is no programming needed. You can even just pay $12/mo to https://voltage.cloud and have it all hosted in the cloud and is set up in <90 seconds. All the things I mentioned in the OP have a pretty UI to configure it all.

2.) Set up your own self-hosted install of https://lnbits.com (or use cloud hosted version at https://voltage.cloud for ~$10 USD/mo).

> I think you make an interesting point about micro payments. Micro payments could be an avenue for crypto to actually achieve some legitimacy and usefulness.

I've been testing out the Lightning Network (Layer 2 of BTC) recently and it seems that the future has arrived. I can accept micropayments in BTC over LN, which get immediately converted to dollars and deposited to a bank account in USD. All for ~$0.01 fee per transaction. Here's how:

1.) Open an account at https://strike.me. This app is very similar to CashApp, but supports getting paid on the Lightning Network. I believe CashApp is also working on this functionality.

2.) Set up your own self-hosted install of https://lnbits.com (or use cloud hosted version at https://voltage.cloud for ~$10 USD/mo).

3.) Connect LNBits to Strike.

4.) Set up a Point of Sale (or paywall, or event tickets, or tip jar, or anything else) on LNBits.

5.) Collect a payment in LNBits.

6.) That BTC is immediately forwarded to Strike, converted to USD and available for withdrawal to your bank account.

Following these steps you can collect micropayments in USD for next-to-nothing fees and no exposure to the volatility of BTC.

LNBits - Withdraw extension - https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits-legend/tree/main/lnbits/extensions/withdraw

There's a draft pull request in LNbits for this purpose, and an accompanying article that describes the process of initializing the card. So the tools are still in the process of being built for home use atm.

Sounds similar to LNbits: https://lnbits.com/

Sure, you will have to host the lnurl proxy on your webserver and you enter your node credentials in the config file. Next you can connect to your proxy in the bitrequest app. Here's documentation for webshop integration.

No discord, I think github is the right place for filing issues.

It takes some cryptography. Had to figure it out myself as well for the bitrequest app. You can look in the code it's there somewhere. I use Mymonero enterprise API to scan for transaction id's.

Download and host the lightning LNURL proxy on your webhost. Fill in your credentials (Host, invoice key and businness logo). Connect with the bitrequest app. And have your 100% non-custodial Point of Sale.

The reason i want people to run their own proxy (LNURL) is not to piss them off. It's because i don't want the responsibility. If you can run your own lightning node you can run your own LNURL proxy on your personal server with your own credentials and your own business logo...ow cool is that??

You can setup your own LNURL proxy very easily with bitrequest.io For lightning users that run their own lightning node it's peanuts. Just host the LNURL proxy on your webserver and connect to it in the app.

Bitrequest works really well with BCH, please give it a try! Nice to have as much as options possible to accept BCH. It's open source, non custodial and open source!

It's doing that now kind of. I need some help with the formatting. I had a really hard time getting the basic layout in place. No idea how to add a logo.

Implementing lightning is really hard. If someone wants to add it it's open source.

I think you might want to take a look at this: https://github.com/bitrequest/bitrequest.github.io