Every time you take a card payment, someone else holds your money first. A processor skims a cut, settles in days, and can freeze or close your account whenever it decides.
Convenience, but also permission.
I built an alternative. And it goes beyond just taking payments.
Plaza: a Bitcoin point of sale that runs on Nostr and Lightning.
Create an invoice. Your customer pays over Lightning with a quick scan or tap. The sats land straight in your own wallet. A signed receipt is published to Nostr. No processor ever touches the money.
Your keys. Your funds. Your identity.
Sovereign by Design
🔑 Noncustodial: payments settle to your own wallet over Nostr Wallet Connect. Plaza never holds your sats.
⚡ Zero fees, forever: no processor cut, no per sale skim. It is written into Plaza’s founding documents.
🟣 Identity you own: your merchant profile, relays, and storefront are Nostr events you can take anywhere.
🧾 Verifiable receipts: every receipt is Schnorr signed and stored on Blossom. Anyone can verify it.
🗺️ Open discovery: merchants appear on a shared map through BTCMap. No gatekept directory, no pay to rank.
🔓 No backdoor: every protocol is open and transparent. Nothing hidden, nothing to trust blindly.
Plaza is live today:
📱 Android: on Zapstore now, signed and verifiable, no gatekeeper. Google Play in review.
Zapstore
Plaza — Zapstore
Plaza turns your phone into a sovereign Bitcoin point of sale. Accept Lightning payments from any wallet, keep 100% of every sale, and let the sats...
🍎 iOS: live on the App Store.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plaza-btc/id6760211345
📋 Whitepaper: published CC0, its SHA256 hash anchored on GitHub, Archive.org, and Nostr.
Beyond one shop
Every Plaza merchant is a node in a Bitcoin economy that does not ask permission. A customer pays, the sats move straight to the merchant, and the receipt lives on open infrastructure both sides can verify. No processor deciding who gets to transact. That is the whole point.
Everything is free. If Plaza earns its place in your business, you can zap or support at plazabtc.com
Live now on Zapstore. Zero fees forever. Your money, your keys, your plaza.
Created with love in Oakland, California.
