My current funded proposal's main thrust is to open source and decentralise my Hive ⚡️Lightning Bridge. That's still the long term goal but while I'm on a roll there are other things I know will be used in the short term. And this one could be a particularly tight fit for Hive's unique and special capabilities.
And this would work for any Lighting Address or even a Node which can receive keysend payments.
Subscriptions and regular payments
How can we open and decentralise Patreon's model of subscriptions? This question is proving hard within the pure Lightning circles.
The simple fix on the Lightning side is to use custodial services where they hold the keys on both the sending and receiving side.
But is there a fully non-custodial solution where both sender and recipient can hold their own keys WITHOUT having to run their own server infrastructure?
My answer is yes: with Hive on the sending side and sometimes receiving too.
The Vision
A simple web page and mobile web page that lets you:
- chose a Podcasting 2.0 Value enabled podcast;
- decide how much to send them in HBD (or Hive);
- set up a recurring payment to that podcast;
- manage recurring payments.
BTW if I detect a Hive payment is going to a podcast using Hive or a 3speak channel, I'll skip the Lightning conversion and just pass the HBD across.
That's it. For anyone wanting to use this the basic requirement will be a Hive account. They can use my v4v.app bridge to convert as many sats as they want to hold into HBD and then Hive's recurring payment systems will take care of the rest.
This could also be picked up and implemented by ANY of the existing Hive front ends: talk to me!
What I need
The backend for this is pretty much all there. If my system receives a regular payment, with the correct destination information, my systems can send the right sats.
What I am looking for is help with front end to make this real. Either within my existing v4v.app web app or something new specifically for this. Happy to consider either.
Build this into Podcast Index
This service could also be built in to PodcastIndex's own website for anyone with HiveKeychain installed. Anyone could build this into their React website and make a pull request. That would be amazing.
The API calls to search for and find any value enabled podcasts are easy via Podcast Index.
This will be my task after HiveFest. And then I'll get back to decentralising the whole service.
Update... it works... in test.
I just set up a daily payment of 1 HBD to my own Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Address (yelpingparade74@walletofsatoshi.com).
One hour later... (because I did have to write some code :-) the first payment of 1 HBD was received and sent on to Wallet of Satoshi. This will happen 4 more times daily!
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