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All right chill. What's up?
Debra, what's going on man? Yo, yo, what's going on?
How's it going? Oh, two two different vibes. You got like chill
He's having a party over there and yes
I'm in a party tail. He's just just a little more chill a little more relaxed
How's it going?
You definitely bring the vibe to minaretopia that's for sure both of you
Appreciate you guys participating
Change it up a little bit this year i'm excited so we can do
Yeah, let's let's tell let's tell the people let's tell them about what we're thinking here
So the hackathon thing actually is something that luke parker at the last minaretopia kept going up to us
He's like you guys got to do a hack done next year. You guys got to do
He was like watching you guys in the workshop and everything
I was like, yeah, sure hackathon and then so they did one at minaret con which is cool
Um, yeah, I know. I'm not sure what exactly came of it. I know they there was like a there were some winners
But now I think you guys kind of paid attention to that learning from it and goal here do a hackathon
And actually walk away with some useful
product that that can come out of it
Useful it's key word
Right not just theoretical, but actually like a working a working thing
Like a real improvement in the minaret space that that that could be used by the community
by the
We want to create ground zero to have
a little sanctuary for innovation within the minaret ecosystem at minaretopia
and we
don't want to water down the focus so it's
Going to be focused on one of the most widely used open source self-hosted
payment processors a btc pay server as you guys know that rick has done a lot of work in integrating
Um
btc pay server monero on the monero side with umbrail
um, he also
Integrated a monero node with umbrail. So uh, so never you should you should be given a talk too, man
Why don't you why don't you give a talk this year?
I don't know
I feel like uh, uh, I feel like I'm better on the ground building shit
I can definitely talk and you know, I can definitely talk and
Spuse some ideas, but I feel like we got a pretty good community of
Of individuals out here doing doing god's work like bowdy coming in these past couple years listening to him
I haven't even given him his shout outs or even talk to him
But uh, just putting in work out there man
So like I feel like all the people on the ground out there
Let's me get down and do my work and sit quietly and you know, that's how we got uh umbral to
Merge the pr request to get uh monero out there
We got over over 3 000 downloads already. So I mean if you think about if we had 20 30
20 000 nodes out there. We already set, you know up the 4 000 out there in the past couple months
That's a significant portion of the network that's getting rammed by umbra right now
So just good to see that we have a little bit of support. Um looking for contributors there and always looking to improve the ecosystem
Obviously one of the big things I'm looking to do is make it easier
Not only for the users but also for the merchants. I feel like you know over the past couple years
We haven't done a really good job of improving the merchant space
Um, so btc pay server being one of the best merchant solutions out there. That's free open source software
I wanted to take an opportunity to dig in make some improvements there that there had already been some requests to improve some
Um integrations and features within the platform, but there still is a lot to be desired
Um, so I'm looking for the community, especially the vendors to reach out and let us know what they're looking to have within the platform
um, not only that
2.0 is coming out. I reached out to
BTC pay server and let them know about the hackathon and nicholas dorrier the the creator btc pay server immediately responded
And was like hey
2.0 is coming out would love for you to like take a review of that and see if there can be any contributions there
So if you know anybody wants to start contributing not only are we going to make some improvements
But we also have to anticipate what 2.0 is going to look like when it comes to all coin support
Um, and essentially what's happening is a lot of the code is being a lot of the payment code is being extracted away
um from the core code base and each one of the
Um cryptocurrencies will be added as a plug-in
So someone needs to lead the charge to create that plug-in from an arrow and get it out there
So i'm happy to kind of help get the team together and start getting getting work done
That's fantastic. Yeah, I'll I'll let she'll finish her her thoughts before I for chime in again
Well the goal the goal. Um, so it's twofold
We want to first refine the user experience for both the vendors and the developers
and really boost
usability and
Create like measurable adoption
Just like davrick said we can see with the nodes as well like how many downloads we can see exactly a measure
His work from last year with the workshop and monarotopia. We can see, you know, the impact now a year later
So we want to create something similar
and secondly, we also want to
You know bring together
Privacy nerds developers who's you know, our hearts are beating for the same cause and we want to
You know create a little group of these, you know
pioneering
individuals who are interested
overall in
improving btc pay server, you know integration to umbrail and maybe future
Um, you know monero nodo like who knows like this is just the beginning. Like I said it's ground zero
So, um, we want yeah, so this
Yeah
No, no fatality. Yeah, hoping hoping to get um
Abdullah down there as well
If you recall to if you recall to dug like day one of when we were talking about the monero nodo some years back
I had made some comments about
btc pay server and let's make sure that we can get that integrated and the reason being we need to make it easy for the vendor
To launch a solution that allows them to receive payments
Including pos system solution accounting capabilities. It can't just be a qr code where bro's receiving a payment
Like that's great, but I'd like to see it where we can make multiple pay payouts to individuals
Let's say we're we're hosting an event and you want to set a defined list of individuals
That should receive a percentage of the proceeds for some type of donation campaign and things like this
there's a lot of kind of just like
Opportunity and btc pay server and and I want us not to only just like focus on monero
But just think more openly about the idea of like improving btc pay server
Because any improvement to that platform is an improvement to monero in general
So, you know keep keep eyes on improving monero and the integration there
Let's get the plug-in ready to go for 2.0. Let's improve some of the work around like remote node integrations
I've seen a lot of requests to ensure that we can get some type of remote node capabilities there
That way if a merchant wanted to run btc pay server for some type of event or even within their shop
They don't necessarily have to run a node. Yeah, that's what I was going to ask
Remotely, right? Let's say they run the node at home, but they don't want to run it in the shop
You know, like there's a lot of like opportunity kind of like diversify your architecture
Um, but do that in a simple way, right? Like I'm all about the one-click insulate installations for
Um, some of those onboarding people or people that are coming into the ecosystem and trying to learn
But they can't dive in and figure out all the firewall stuff
It's usually home networking security stuff that they don't know it has nothing to do with with moneros
Um, so it's it's about making it easy making it secure for them to do
And then over time we teach them how to migrate to more
More concrete solutions
More robust solutions that let them be and even more control
Um, I know we talked about this and if if you can make this happen, this would be amazing
If by the end of manara manarotopia
There's a way for me to easily add btc pay server as a pay as as a payment option for
Manarotopia.com right now. We use the manaro gateway, right? And I've told you that like I just haven't gotten around to setting up btc pay server
I know it obviously can be done. It's really not super difficult, but it's not as new friendly as
Actually the manaro the how you currently set up manaro gateway and manaro gateway isn't isn't really the most reliable
Um way to go in terms of accepting manaro payments is like it works, but it's a little it's a little unreliable
It's a little clunky. So if there's a way where you know, I'm a word
Manarotopia is our wordpress. We use WooCommerce
If I could just in a few clicks get btc pay server running up through WooCommerce
Um, that would be huge. I know that would be big for me
And I think that'd be impactful for a lot of other people out there who say okay
I would definitely add manaro to my to my checkout. I use wordpress. I use WooCommerce
There's so many people that fall into that that category
Um, and they could they could start, you know
Accepting manaro through btc pay server via WooCommerce. What do you think could that
Potentially be something that comes out of this? Well, that's that's already supported today
If you just google WooCommerce btc pay server, you'll see their great documentation
Where they pretty much walked through the process of integrating this into like a wordpress site
So the only thing