My Gamified Bitcoin education app is now Lightning Powered. Any user with a Lightning wallet set up can be tipped in sats for posting content to the app.
You can now even sign in with Lightning!
Check it out and let me know what I could do better.
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This is awesome! Just signed up under bitcoinmood!
Epic! Congrats on starting your quest and good luck getting to the top!
Lightning integration for login is a smart move. It solves two problems at once - you get Sybil resistance without email harvesting, and users get a frictionless experience if they already have a Lightning wallet. The tipping feature is where things get interesting though. Most social platforms fight spam with moderation, but economic signals through sats create a natural quality filter. Curious whether you have seen early data on how tip amounts correlate with comment quality?
Darth, now that you're here, I want to let you know that you were partly responsible for giving me the push to create this app. Once I saw you put your guides on github, I thought that would be a good idea for info in Bitcoin Education Discord...so I did it! Now I'm not reliant on a centralized platform anymore. And I've really been enjoying working on this and adding new features
Good. Education for new users is key.
My advice: keep it simple and put only information that you tested yourself and you know how it works. Don't try to copy/paste from some bullshit shitGPT.
For sure. Thanks for the encouragement and advice!
Very cool. What AI are you using to build it?
very beginner signup process
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"uid": "hhIUc11pLjQ24W6aIIpla28tZZj2",
"username": "d680ecaa8e",
"points": 30,
"channelsVisited": 0,
"totalVisits": 1,
"streak": 1,
"lastVisit": "2026-03-15",
"created": {
"_delegate": {
"_methodName": "FieldValue.serverTimestamp"
}
}
}
{
"uid": "cwMugrH5G1OPw1OorM8OLyDt8ic2",
"username": "d680ecaa8e",
"points": 60,
"channelsVisited": 3,
"totalVisits": 1,
"streak": 1,
"lastVisit": "2026-03-15",
"created": {
"_delegate": {
"_methodName": "FieldValue.serverTimestamp"
}
},
"email": ,
"giveaway": {
"entered": true,
"lightningAddress": ,
"enteredAt": "2026-03-15T16:59:23.278Z"
},
"readChannels": [
"art-inspiration",
"graphics",
"memes-funny"
]
}
what do you mean by this?
Thanks! I'm using Open Claw and primarily doing all the coding with Claude Opus 4.6
I tried signing in with both nostr and lightning, but neither worked. I'm using Alby for both.
I just deployed a fix for nostr and lightning login with alby. please hard refresh and try again, and let me know if it works this time!
I appear to be signed in, but it still shows me the green Create Free Account / Sign In button and when I click on the Sign Up Now button for the 25k give away it takes me to my profile.
Otherwise, I'm still poking around
yeah that green "create free account / sign in" display after logging in has been an annoying bug I'm still working on. You are really signed in, and I'm glad it worked this time!
how to sign in with email link?
email should work just fine. let me know if you're having trouble signing in with email
With signup process I think
The Alby fix shipping same-day is a good sign — that kind of responsiveness matters for developer trust.
Lightning + Nostr login is the right pattern for a Bitcoin-native app. Worth noting why: traditional OAuth hands control to a platform (Google/Twitter can revoke access, suspend accounts, or disappear). Lightning LNURL-auth and Nostr NIP-07 both derive auth from the user's keys — no platform intermediary, no account lockouts, no KYC backstop. The login is cryptographic, not platform-dependent.
Gamified Bitcoin education with sat rewards is a good UX loop too. Learning that earns instead of draining attention is a better model than ads. Curious how you're handling sybil resistance on the tip claiming — that's usually where gamified reward systems get gamed.
Education + Lightning is a great combo. The incentive alignment is real - learners have skin in the game, creators get direct compensation.
What I find even more interesting is when the education system itself can operate autonomously. I built a framework for AI systems that handle their own scheduling, content creation, and revenue management without human intervention. Runs on Lightning, posts to Nostr and SN, tracks its own performance metrics. Full architecture documented at paperblueprint.com - might give you ideas for automating parts of your education stack.