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Putting the final touches on a new version of Podfriend for web and desktop!

But all my boost functionality in the earlier version stopped working and I have no idea what kind of features have been implemented in the spec over the last year What's cool these days and how do I get boosts working again?!

@martin

> I have no idea what kind of features have been implemented in the spec over the last year

I was posting the same thing a couple weeks ago

In short, for BTC, lnaddress and keysend. Each has trade-offs.

lnaddress is nice bc it lets people specify a human readable, username/domain "email style" reference, that can be looked up to get the wallet address. this lets people provide their lnaddress, and potentially change the wallet address it directs to later.

@martin keysend still works as it did back in the beginning, I believe.

A key difference between keysend and lnaddress, is that keysend lets you send metadata with the payment, but lnaddress does not.

lnaddress does however, allow you send a memo, and so some apps are now hosting their own "boost metadata" endpoints, and including a link to boost metadata in the memo of the payments.

Add rss::payment Metadata by MerryOscar · Pull Request #734 · Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace

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So keysend adoption appears to be fading, while lnaddress adoption is rising.

@martin as for Podverse, we've been talking it over, and we don't really want ownership responsibility of payment metadata, so we're looking into if there's a way to bridge these worlds. Continue using the lnaddress metadata format other apps are using, but look for an opt-in declaration by the podcasters for where they want their metadata sent.

@martin as for Podverse, we've been talking it over, and we don't really want ownership responsibility of payment metadata, so we're looking into if there's a way to bridge these worlds. Continue using the lnaddress metadata format other apps are using, but look for an opt-in declaration by the podcasters for where they want their metadata sent.

@mitch @martin

I've been thinking about this and I know even know what to tell you guys tbh. TLDR Alby isn't "free" anymore and we need an alternative and it's not going well. We've been looking for an alternative for years and well doesn't look like one really exist.

Good news is that Alby still does it all and more but requires resources from the users.

Since you guys are talking web I think just using the Alby extension is still the way to go.

@mitch @martin

I've been building stuff over the past few months and started with Bitcoin Wallet Connect and add stuff to it. It supports Alby and other wallets but they don't really work for what we're doing yet.

I had Claude do a summary of what I used when build stablekraft.app that's been my catch all for this stuff over the last few months so I hope it helps.

stablekraft-app/docs/alby-payment-references.md at main · ChadFarrow/stablekraft-app

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@ChadF @martin thanks! This summary is helpful. It looks similar to I'm working on locally at the moment.

I'm not using those libraries (trying to avoid libraries in nextgen, when feasible) but besides that, looks about the same.

@mitch @martin

I'm vibecoding so I just drop in GitHub repos and hope for the best but the Bitcoin Connect stuff is what really got the ball rolling for me but you already have the Alby stuff working in Podverse web.

This also does NWC that Oscar and Franco have been working on but that's still very early and has a lot of issues still.

@ChadF @martin wow, that's a lot of apps in Bitcoin Connect. I guess they don't all use WebLN, and therefore have different steps for connecting your wallet to the page?

I have not gone through the NWC payment flow yet, so I don't have good mental model of that works.

Also, the UX of stablekraft.app is cool. Has a nice music library feel to it.

If you ever have coding questions I may be able to help with, feel free to reach out. I'm on Discord and Matrix in addition to here.