Having @PUBPAY.me LIVE at @Adopting Bitcoin may have seemed, from the outside, like “just a simple zap dashboard on a screen” but in reality, it was far more ambitious. Every single speaking slot in the conference schedule had its own PubPay LIVE. Before the event, we emailed every speaker explaining how Nostr works, how to create an account if they didn’t already have one, and how to set up a Lightning Address. For the ones who missed the email, we reached out personally. Texting, onboarding, troubleshooting. Whatever it took. We made sure every speaker had the tools to participate. For the speakers who didn’t create their own PubPay LIVE event in time, we displayed a default event created by the conference’s Nostr account. In total, we got 47 PubPay LIVEs. On stage, speakers got to experience the magic of Nostr firsthand: sats streamed directly to them in real time, tied to the identity of the payer, often with comments full of love, questions, or even criticism. It was value-for-value in its purest form. The audience, on the other hand, got the simplest introduction to Nostr imaginable. Anyone could instantly reward their favorite speaker, send a message that appeared both on-screen and on Nostr for the entire world to see, and compete for the top of the leaderboard, gaining visibility, clout, and often advertising their own products. A total of 325,293 sats were zapped to the speakers' posts. Nostr was even featured in the official livestream during @Giacomo Zucco talk. image It wasn’t just engagement. It wasn’t just fun. We onboarded. We educated. We opened a new channel of real-time interaction. We tested interoperability across Nostr clients under real live pressure. And the result? We purple-pilled and orange-pilled an entire conference. What @Pedro 🧨 and I pulled off was nothing short of incredible. And we’re not stopping. The goal is to bring PubPay Live to every major Bitcoin conference in 2026. With everyone’s help, it becomes easier, smoother, and even more impactful. Who’s in?
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Fantastic to see projects conceived at #SovEng on the big stage!
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We're here to help 🫡 Plus, we built it in a easy way that everyone can do it for every conference and bitcoin event using PubPay LIVE Multi. @Tanja was even controlling what was being displayed in the Nostr Lounge TV remotely all the away from Germany.
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Jason 1 month ago
In a world that AI is going to make it more and more difficult to tell real from fake, this is going to add so much value to live events
I'm in! 😄 At first when you told me about it I wasn't sure you could pull it through given the amount of moving parts, number of speakers and events, potential delays on the talks (starting later or earlier/taking longer than scheduled), and being featured in multiple stages at the same time and all that, but you actually did. And I had the chance to witness it live! Had a great time while doing it too. 😌 Looking forward to 2026. Congratulations, well done!
Without Jose's help we couldn't have done it! Like he said, MANY moving parts. Contacting speakers, having them post on nostr, handle delays during the event, multiple stages... But nobody said adoption would be easy! Thank you for your help man! Let's kick ass in 2026 💜
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Matyas Kuchar 1 month ago
I like the idea very much! LFDI … I just need to solve few steps beforehand ;)