Best way to gift 🎁 BTC? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

931 sats \ 31 comments \ @User21000000 11 Oct 2022 bitcoin

Best way to gift Bitcoin?

I see the open dime looks to be the possibly the best so you as the gifted don’t have the keys etc

But is it the easiest for new users to work out?

What other ways could work?

874 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 11 Oct 2022

Yes, the easiest one is with LNURL-w links. Create a bunch of them, print them or simply send by email or chat and receiver can withdraw the sats anytime with almost any LN wallet.

Are many ways to create LNURL-w:

Using LNbits, preferred your own instance, on your node Video tutorial here More details about the LNbits extension
Use LNTXBOT in Telegram to generate LNURL-w vouchers type in the chat with the bot: /withdraw_lnurl_50000 (or any other amount) and will create a QR code and a LNURL address that can be shared, printed or whatever you want to do with it. This is the simplest and fastest way, no node or server necessary. Here is the full guide for LNTXBOT

Same as LNTXBOT you have https://t.me/LightningTipBot

Use a web service to generate the LN vouchers:

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taranis 12 Oct 2022

i've used ln.cash many times to pay back friends small amounts. for example, buying a beer off a friend at an event. just create an ln.cash link and drop it in their telegram for future payment retrieval.

2 sats \ 2 replies \ @satorin 12 Oct 2022

Cool list, I have used https://laisee.org/ before.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 OP 12 Oct 2022

How was that experience?

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @satorin 12 Oct 2022

Seamless, but only used it once as I met some Chinese friends after Chinese New Year.

Chinese people gift each other money, so I guess it made sense? Makes you think a bit.

Nice UI, fixed Sats work for that purpose, good red packet designs. Aside from that, I go LN.cash.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 OP 12 Oct 2022

Great list Darth. Was expecting your response in meme form? Are you feeling ok?

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 12 Oct 2022

When I see that people are interested in learning how to use BTC/LN I gave them extensive guides.

When I see that they are shitcoining I gave them memes.

639 sats \ 2 replies \ @guimozick 12 Oct 2022

On discord and telegram you can find Zebedee bots that work for tip/rain and payment. On Twitter you have several, the best I think is CoinKit. Zebedee also has the possibility for game developers to implement small sats rewards

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 OP 12 Oct 2022

Any links you can share on these and how it worked for you?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guimozick 12 Oct 2022

Sure. ZBD Here you can see their website the link to the Discord and Telegram bot. There is all the info for developers and gamers too ZEBEDEE. Twitter ZBD

And for Twitter you have CoinKit and CCTip both of which are multi-currency. I like CoinKit more because the tweets are clearer about what the user must do to obtain the reward. In all the user who receives the reward must have their app, something similar to a wallet. They all work with lighting network

639 sats \ 10 replies \ @juan 11 Oct 2022

This is what I’m trying to build, I added information about it here #78021

It’s more for easy tipping but could also work as gifting.

I’ve gifted Sats using Open Dimes which is really cool, and I give them a print out of the QR Code to check their balance, the whole thing is a piece of art and it’s very easy but I still feel like the person receiving it will feel intimidated at some point in case they want to transfer them somewhere else. Also I’m sure many will lose them or completely forget about them.

So what I’m set out to build is an easy way of gifting Sats without having to manually onboard the person right on the spot or worry that they won’t experience the use cases of bitcoin. The user can claim the funds and do a self-onboarding, experience many of the use cases like loading up a virtual Visa card using their Sats via https://paywithmoon.com or buy gift cards using bitrefill, buy something online via LN and many other.

I think that’s one thing we all need to aim for, allowing users to fully experience things they can do with bitcoin before we ask them to start DCA’ing!

672 sats \ 9 replies \ @User21000000 OP 11 Oct 2022

How is your project going?

639 sats \ 8 replies \ @juan 11 Oct 2022

Still in the initial idea stage, I enrolled in the Bolt 🔩 Fun’s Legends of Lightning ⚡️Tournament. https://makers.bolt.fun/tournaments/1/overview

And was able to assemble a team, submissions start tomorrow and we get to build in public for the next month and a half! I’m not a programmer, I’ve been in affiliate marketing for 10+ years so I had to scout for people to join me in building this project and see what we are able to build, obviously the initial stage would be a simple MVP to test and gauge of people would truly use it!

102 sats \ 5 replies \ @satorin 12 Oct 2022

Yeah, good luck man - keep us posted.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @juan 17 Oct 2022

Here’s week 1 update! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 #82384

200 sats \ 0 replies \ @satorin 17 Oct 2022

Looks good - Clean and simple UI

Will take it out for a spin :)

200 sats \ 2 replies \ @User21000000 OP 17 Oct 2022

Great work so far

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @juan 17 Oct 2022

Thank you!

Once we have something that is stable and feel comfortable will let you know.. The Proof of Concept works right now but still lots to do.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 OP 17 Oct 2022

For sure looking forward to seeing the next update 🫡💯

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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 OP 12 Oct 2022

Good luck with it!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @juan 17 Oct 2022

Thank you!

If you want to see progress here’s what was done in week 1 #82384

639 sats \ 3 replies \ @NEEDcreations 11 Oct 2022

Swan Bitcoin has a gifting method they implemented last Christmas. The cool part about this gift is it also signs them up for Swan, so they can take it upon themselves to start easily DCAing into Bitcoin which is the goal, right? Swan also has educational material and encourages self custody from the start! Here's my referral link if you'd like to check out Swan and try gifting that way (I believe it's only US at the moment). https://www.swanbitcoin.com/philfaz

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @juan 17 Oct 2022

Yes this one is awesome, I’m DCA’er on swan and they are it’s my primary place for stacking!

Their gifting feature is really great, smooth onboarding, lots of education material and they can start DCA’ing right away!

With our approach is a bit different, it’s more for something on the go, let’s say you want to tip your waiter/waitress or the valet parking, or pretty much anyone that provides a service where don’t have to ask them for their email or any personal information, just let them scan a QR Code and off they go on their own! We have to build an extremely robust self-onboarding experience, something that is not very intimidating for the user, I thought about breaking down a user experiences in the following categories:

spending
Saving
Regifting / Donating
Buying / Earning
Remitting

Basically offering use case scenarios for them to experience first hand on the LN Network and make them feel comfortable to use it and hopefully inspire curiosity to learn more.

I just posted an update on the week 1 of building #82384

128 sats \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 OP 11 Oct 2022

I’ll have a look into it. Smooth referral plug

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Taranis 12 Oct 2022

Swan is a respectable service provider, however, providing a no corner the opportunity to begin their bitcoin journey with some non-KYC sats is tip-top in my opinion.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 12 Oct 2022

This is a valuable thread. I definitely have to come back here when I eventually start my own community project. I will most likely start by using Azteco to buy sats and using those to buy groceries for the underprivileged people in my area. Tipping would be another option for those who becomes familiar with bitcoin. Thank you for sharing.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 12 Oct 2022