Bitcoin

Killing the Bitcoin Lightning experiment

A while ago, I got all excited around the idea of Bitcoin as art . It was such a satisfying perspective that I decided to embrace it and implement a tipping service on the Bitcoin Testnet for this website. A fun experiment, a way to learn something and tinker around with the technology. The best part was: it somehow didn’t require any maintenance. It would work without further tinkering.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 5 min read | Lightning Bitcoin | Thoughts

Setup up a Bitcoin Lightning point of sale in Common Lisp

Because I can, I recently added support for testnet Bitcoin Lightning payments into this website. The beauty of Freedom and privacy respecting software is that you can do anything you want with it. There are many ways to do it. You can always use a service, provider for that, but the beauty of Bitcoin, the reason it is valuable, is that you can do it yourself.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 28 min read | Common-Lisp Bitcoin Lightning