Happy New Year & Happy Genesis Block Day! Thank you for your appreciation and support during the last 144 x 365 blocks⚡️🐽

Like our friends at @Bitcoin Runners , today marks two years since we started “Running nostr” 🥳 We too would like to show our love and appreciation to everyone working tirelessly in this space, building a brighter future for generations to come. Onward! #bitcoin #nostr #stem++ View quoted note →

Team LightingPiggy wishes you a Merry Christmas! We hope you have a ham-tastic holiday with all the trimmings! Don’t go bacon our hearts, keep hogging those sats babe 🧡

We've scratched our own itch and released piggy code 4.3.2 available at

Lightning Piggy Web Installer

Easily allow users to install Lightning Piggy firmware on the web.

It adds the Spanish 🇪🇸 translations by Pedrotronic and fixes "instant" payment updates (when the piggy is not asleep) that broke due to an LNBits API change. Now that feels better ⚡️🐽

A new ⚡️🐽 is born. Imagine the delight every time a zap arrives! Bitcoin kids are the best!! @Jace

We’ve refreshed our @LightningPiggy creations page! Check it out here:

Lightning Piggy

In the Wild

The Vogue of piggy banks: Showcase your creations here to help inspire other builders. Whether your LightningPiggy is 3D printed, or handmade, ever...

and see the amazing designs our community has shared. Have a ⚡️🐽 creation you’d like to show off? Share your photos with us here, or send them to oink@lightningpiggy.com. And here’s a fun bonus: include a scannable payment QR code in your image, and you’ll earn extra zaps!

‪@LNbits is where all the magic happens, and we’re extremely grateful to everyone working on it 🐽‬ View quoted note →

Discover how LightningPiggy helps kids save on a sound money standard using LNbits technology!

LNbits

Leveraging LNbits and LNURLpay for LightningPiggy: Empowering Kids to Save with Bitcoin

For educators, developers or hobbyists, LNbits offers an easy-to-use API and an array of extensions, like LNURLpay, that can be adapted for various...

We’re thrilled to have a ‘stall’ at the inaugural Learning Bitcoin event next Saturday, September 28th, in Victoria, BC 🇨🇦! There will be amazing speakers and practical hands-on learning about Bitcoin, its technology, and world changing applications. The event also provides a great opportunity to network with experts and enthusiasts, deepening your knowledge in a rapidly evolving space. Free entry for under 13s. See you there!

We had an amazing time at @BTCPrague’s Kids’ Corner, where we built piggies and created some unique characters. The children were incredibly creative and worked well together. Check out their proof-of-work (shared with permissions). #LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

Pig’s don’t fly? Well this little piggy has just landed in Prague 🎶 Being your kids to our design and build challenges at @BTCPrague this Friday and Saturday ⚡️🐽

Join us Today at 3 PM for a LightningPiggy Workshop @BitcoinArnhem! The piggybank for your kids. The first 10 participants will receive a special Nostr surprise. Don’t miss out—just head down to the basement to join the fun! ⚡️🐽

Did you know you can setup recurring lightning payments to your LightningPiggy using @Alby ZapPlanner? Pocket money has never been so sound and easy.

ZapPlanner

Schedule lightning payments to a lightning address using NWC

#LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

Piggy banks have been around for hundreds of years. Here’s a rather cute early example kept in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK. LightningPiggy is the next logical step to introduce kids to saving on a sound money standard. We’re proud to be the first bitcoin lighting piggy bank. And we’re free and open source. Build your own:

Lightning Piggy

Build a LightningPiggy 1.0 (e-paper edition)

For LightningPiggy 2.0 click here! Making your very own LightingPiggy is squealy easy. Here are the steps you need to follow: 1. Source the part...

#LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #FOSS #BuildInPublic #bitcoin

Our #GeyserFund page is now back-up and running. Here’s the link 👇

Geyser | Bitcoin Crowdfunding Platform

A Bitcoin crowdfunding platform where creators raise funds for causes, sell products, manage campaigns, and engage with their community.

We’re thankful to everyone who has supported our open source project to make #bitcoin the standard for every child 🙏⚡️🐽

We’re thrilled to formally announce two updates to the LightningPiggy code. The first a major update (v2) launched at the Bitcoin Atlantis conference in Madeira earlier this month. And the second update (V2.1.1) with minor improvements released yesterday. What’s new with V2.1.1. User experience improvements: • Support for CHF currency symbol (Fr). • Support for German, Dutch and Spanish weekdays. • Additional boot slogans. • Only the first character of weekdays will be displayed. Fixes • Display artefacts below horizontal line removed. • “NA" placeholder for unknown currency symbols removed. Credit:

GitHub

ThomasFarstrike - Overview

The future looks bright! ThomasFarstrike has 23 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

What’s new with V2.0.0. Extended battery life: • Infinite wifi retry, infinite HTTP response waiting time and other long battery-draining exceptions are addressed with a "smart" watchdog. • The wake-up frequency now adapts based on a seven-point profile correlated with battery voltage. User experience improvements: • Realtime balance and payment updates also happen under battery power after manual wake-ups, thanks to new awake/sleep status decision logic. • Notification code enhancements that help the user to easily troubleshoot any possible errors. • On-screen indication when the device is sleeping vs awake. • New on-screen software update visibility. • New startup screen logo by Bitko. Optional new features: • Fiat balance and Bitcoin price with configurable fiat currency (USD, EUR, DKK,...) • Random boot-up 'quotes and memes' with configurable prelude. • Show last updated day and time. Removed features: • Disabled HAL sensor value as it wasn't useful. Credits:

GitHub

ThomasFarstrike - Overview

The future looks bright! ThomasFarstrike has 23 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

with valuable new feature and improvement contributions from

GitHub

lonerookie - Overview

lonerookie has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Build your own:

Lightning Piggy

Build a LightningPiggy 1.0 (e-paper edition)

For LightningPiggy 2.0 click here! Making your very own LightingPiggy is squealy easy. Here are the steps you need to follow: 1. Source the part...

Chat with our community:

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LightningPiggy

Community group for the LightningPiggy FOSS project

Join our shadowy super coders:

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LightningPiggy

An electronic cash piggy bank for children that accepts bitcoin sent over lightning, while displaying the amount saved in satoshis - LightningPiggy

These little piggies are going to @BitcoinAtlantis Credit lonerookie for creating the hardware based on the character donated to the project by @satoshigallery #LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

We’re excited to launch our third bounty to encourage more devs to join the project and to ultimately bring more piggies to market. We’re looking for sponsors or donors to boost these sat amounts. Please get in touch if you would like to support our mission to make sats the savings standard for every child. If you’re a C programmer and familiar with developing FOSS projects using Arduino, join us! 👉

Lightning Piggy

Bounty #3: GitHub Issues Blitz

We’re excited to launch our third bounty to encourage more devs to join the project and to ultimately bring more piggies to market. We’re look...

PROJECT: LightningPiggy BOUNTY: 1,000,000 sats total to be claimed CODENAME: GitHub Issues Blitz TASKS: #1 Battery drains because of infinite retries in case of failures

GitHub

Battery drains because of infinite retries in case of failures · Issue #1 · LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy

Throughout the piggy code, there are several places where infinite retries are attempted, and this can drain the battery if it keeps failing. Examp...

Bounty: 350K sats #2 Smarter (or no) sleep depending on battery

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Smarter (or no) sleep depending on battery · Issue #2 · LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy

When the Lightning Piggy receives a payment, it would be nice if this is immediately visible on the display, as instant feedback is more gratifying...

Bounty: 200K sats #3 Indicate when the device is sleeping vs awake

GitHub

Indicate when the device is sleeping vs awake · Issue #3 · LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy

Currently, the user has no indication of whether the device is awake or sleeping, as the ePaper display stays "on" during sleep. Especially on the ...

Bounty: 150K sats #4 Show update notifications on the display

GitHub

Show update notifications on the display · Issue #4 · LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy

Currently, the device checks for the availability of updates and outputs the result on the serial port. But it doesn't show any update notification...

Bounty: 150K sats #5 Make notification code more generic

GitHub

Make notification code more generic · Issue #5 · LightningPiggy/lightning-piggy

Currently, the device has an informal "notification area" on the bottom left of the display. It gets used when the battery is low, for the "LOW BAT...

Bounty: 150K sats Notes: * Successful completion of each task will be decided by a simple majority of the core team, defined here:

Lightning Piggy

Credits

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has played a role in bringing this little piggy to market. Contributors Volunteers who have co...

* GitHub issue #7 “Show on-chain balance” is tabled for introduction as part of a future ‘multiple screens’ update. * Target deadline Feb 25th, 2024 (in time for the Bitcoin Atlantis conference in Madeira). * If you reach an advanced stage working on one of the tasks listed above let the LP Telegram group know, so as to help reduce duplication of effort. * Sponsors/Donors please contact oink@lightningpiggy.com #STEMM #FinancialEducation #BitcoinKids #bitcoin

Out with the old, in with the new. We're excited to launch the new "Mini" edition 3D printed case to house your sound money piggy bank, available now for download.

Lightning Piggy

Cases

If you have access to a 3D printer or a laser cutter, printing/cutting your own case is a fast and economical way to house your piggy. Our contribu...

#bitcoin #lightning #bitcoinkids