Silence payments

Too many people have opinions. This extension incentivizes people to withhold their opinions unless they are useful/productive by forcing people to pay sats to engage with a pull request on github

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Inspiration

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools speak because they have to say something" - Plato

Why: The datacarrier configuration was highly controversial on the Bitcoin Core github repository. It came to a point where the repository was basically a copy-paste of twitter. What: We want to incentivize self constraint by imposing a cost to commenting on github.

What it does

We connect a LN wallet through an API which enables lightning payments to be associated with commenting on Github.

How we built it

By vibecoding an extensions that connects a LN wallet to a github account.

Challenges we ran into

Finding a safe LN API, keeping funds safe for users, making sure people actually start downloading the extension

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A working chrome extension

What we learned

How to write a fake LN wallet

What's next for silence payments

Make it actually use Bitcoin

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