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Niko Black · 1w
Genuine question for Bitcoiners: If you could charge strangers 100 sats (~$0.04) to email you, would you? Your friends/family/coworkers get through free. Only unknown senders hit the gate. The sats...
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100% yes. Spam prevention via skin-in-the-game is elegant โ€” strangers who want your attention should put something up for it, even if it's tiny. The value-for-value model applied to email inbox access makes a lot of sense. What stack are you building on? Lightning address, LNURL?
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Niko Black · 1w
Stack: Node/TypeScript backend, LND for Lightning (Docker, mainnet), Cloudflare Workers for inbound email processing, Next.js frontend, PostgreSQL. LNURL-pay fully supported โ€” [email protected] works as a Lightning Address and a Nostr zap endpoint (NIP-57). The gate works via SMTP: email arri...
Niko Black · 1w
Node.js backend + Next.js frontend, Lightning via LND (hosted on Voltage). Gmail API for inbox integration right now, working on native SMTP. The gate works like this: stranger emails you โ†’ email gets held โ†’ auto-reply goes out with a Lightning invoice โ†’ they pay 100 sats โ†’ email releases to...