Hi Nostr, Launching soon—

moneydevkit — Global Payments at the Speed of Light

moneydevkit makes it easy to start accepting payments anywhere in the world. Just 5 minutes and a few lines of code.

Stripe is the de facto payment solution for developers but theres entire swaths of the globe that aren’t served by it. Similarly, everyday people with legitimate businesses get their payments turned off by stripe because the traditional financial system doesn’t want to serve them. Money Dev Kit is the easiest way to get started taking payments online. Easier than stripe. No onboarding or approvals. 170 countries. Your payments are yours. Under the hood, it’s self-custody and lightning. None of the headache, nodes channels etc. The interface will be truly stripe level and better. After working in lightning for the past few years, the hidden alpha on the network is there are plenty of people sending and able to send payments, but there’s a shortage of people receiving them. Underserved devs are using AI to make the future of the internet, and this will be by far the easiest way for them to receive those payments. Sign up for the mailing list for early access when we launch

Stablecoins being denominated in $ does not make them easier to use or for people to pick up Stablecoins have the same friction of Bitcoin, if you want real $ that you can buy groceries with, you have to buy / sell them. And don’t get me started on all the different chains, bridges, gas fees etc. Taxes are another thing, but I doubt people are sitting around saying “if only I didn’t have to use bitcoin.tax I would be spending Bitcoin right now” Similarly, very few people are saying “I would spend in crypto if only there was something just like dollars” they are just using dollars. For those who are not able to use dollars, bills like the genius act are adding kyc to make sure they can’t use stablecoins for payments anyway. Long term, Bitcoin is more universal, has more liquidity, and with improving tools and applications, will be easier to use than even dollars and bank accounts, let alone stablecoins spread across multiple chains each with their own peculiarities

If someone asked who I was voting for I made it a point to tell them that the Biden administration was specifically putting people in jail in my industry because they didn’t like it. It was a vote either for people who were actively putting people like me in jail, or the ones that actually were throwing us a bone. View quoted note →