BillionSatoshiHomepage

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A Bitcoin take on the 2005 Million Dollar Homepage

Hey @sime, lightning payments are now Live!

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# The [Billion Satoshi Homepage](https://1billionsats.com) Now Accepts Lightning⚡Payments!

Check out our [Launch Post](https://stacker.news/items/1469202) to see what we are about.

We've updated the site to include lightning payments via [OpenNode](https://app.opennode.com/). This will allow more users to easily purchase cells on our ever-populating grid, and hopefully pave the way to accelerating Bitcoin and Lightning adoption.

![](https://m.stacker.news/137786)

To add to this, we've also upgraded the mobile experience to allow cell purchasing on mobile to help ease of use if using Lightning. We used to only allow purchasing on desktop as a rule of ease of use, but had plans to allow mobile purchasing when we roll out Lightning payments.

**Stackers**, what would you post in the grid for exposure? (You're still early!).

[Follow us on X](https://x.com/onebillionsats) for updates and freebies down the line!

The Billion Satoshi Homepage now accepts Lightning Payments

I just figured 'Billion Satoshi Homepage' had more of a ring to it, don't you reckon? 

And as the price currently stands, it works out cheaper than Alex Tew's homepage pricing.

Good grief, I made a mistake! It's 100,000 sats per cell, not 1000...

Sure! Anything at all, even your usual cats project? Big fan of Blues & Jazz myself so enjoyed listening to those!

# **In 2005 a British student named Alex Tew sold a million pixels on a** [**webpage**](https://milliondollarhomepage.com/) **for $1 each to pay for university.**

Anyone with a minimum of 100 quid bought a bunch of pixels, put their logo in it, and the thing went viral. He made $1,000,000 and the site still exists today.

I learned about the site in 2013 or so during college, and it flipped a switch in my head that probably started my persuit of entrepreneurship. I bought my first sats when the price of Bitcoin was at $7,000. I knew then that it was going to be a big deal, and I realised I could make a Bitcoin version of Alex Tew's homepage, but I was still studying and making a website was a feat that was out of reach for me. Fast forward almost a decade, and the idea I came up with had been sitting in a Figma file for 3 years, sloppily mocked up after a drunken Friday night when the idea came to me again. (I get my best ideas when I'm drunk).

> The terrible design I attempted in Figma years ago

![](https://m.stacker.news/137607)

I tried to build it about a year ago using a Claude chat and it looked like a 2003 GeoCities page. Came back recently with Claude Code and actually pulled it off to a standard I deemed acceptable.

1 million pixel grid, each 10x10 cell costs 1000 sats, hence 1 Billion Sats, because the whole grid is worth 10 Bitcoin all up.

> The attempt at a vibe-coded site in late 2024... god it was bad

![](https://m.stacker.news/137606)

I believe in Bitcoin as a solution to the money problem. I want to help accelerate adoption of the masses. A lot of people's first crypto transaction is on an exchange buying a fraction of something and watching a number go up or down. This is something different, a low stakes, creative reason to actually send sats somewhere. Put your project on a grid that's meant to fill up over time, and drive traffic to your site. To me, it feels more like participation than speculation. The grid is sparse right now, which is what the Million Dollar Homepage looked like in week one before anyone had heard of it. If you're reading this on Stacker News you're probably earlier to most things than most people anyay.

The site is live at [1billionsats.com](https://1billionsats.com)
Take a look, and thanks for reading!

Would you put anything on it?

Building the Bitcoin version of the Million Dollar Homepage. 1M pixels. 1000 sats a block. Believer in Bitcoin since 2016 !🟠

🏠[1billionsats.com](https://1billionsats.com)

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