A few useful/interesting projects

• The Bolt Card. An NFC card that allows you to pay Bitcoin directly with your own lightning node(or using third party services).

• OpenDime. You have basically "Bitcoin Sticks" that control a certain amount of Bitcoin. You pass them around as cash basically.

• LNPoS. Make offline payments with lightning!

• Stacker News. Read news, and get some sats with lightning through votes, posts, comments, etc.

• SolDirac. A Q/A website that pays you sats via lightning to answer the questions.

• Lightning Exchanges. List of exchanges that support withdrawals and sending bitcoin with lightning.

• 21 Days of Bitcoin course from the Bitcoin Magazine. Earn 2,100 sats for free redeemable through lightning while learning more about Bitcoin with this course.

• BTC Pay Server. Accept bitcoin with lightning at your store for free.

• Satsback. Earn sats back whenever you buy stuff. It's like cashback but with sats instead, and paid with lightning.

• Lightning Network Stores. Directory of stores that support lightning.

• Some great lightning wallets: If you just want the simplest non-custodial one, go with Muun. If you want the simplest custodial one, go with Wallet of Satoshi. If you want to be able to customize things a bit and maybe even use your own lightning node you can check out Breeze, BlueWallet, Phoenix. If you want a wallet with all the latest state of the art stuff implemented into it, check out Blixt. If you want to have full control of your lightning node, checkout Zeus.

• If you want to run a lightning node with 100% open source where you have full control of every aspect of the stack: Open source stack to run your own Lightning node⚡

• Sphinx. Decentralized chat/social media/etc, you can even sell your texts/photos/media out of the box. All using sats.

• Juggernaut. Similar to sphinx. All using sats.

• impervious. P2P everything with payments built-in. All based on lightning.

• Login with your lightning wallet instead of user/pass

• lightning address. Make your own lightning address for simpler payments in lightning.

• zebedee API. API to use sats as micro-payments in games.

• If you ever need to send a fax, you can do it with lightning

• If you need to send an SMS instead, here's how to send it with lightning

• Alby. Use lightning in the browser. You can authenticate (no more user/pass), and make lightning transactions right from your browser. No need to switch between apps or creating invoices. All works seamlessly.

Submitted May 23, 2022 at 10:39AM by nullama https://bit.ly/3Gb1NMk