WEBVTT 00:01.070 --> 00:08.150 The minaretopia guest segment is sponsored by cake wallets store send received an exchange of an era 00:08.150 --> 00:14.510 Bitcoin safely on iosin and ray 2 cake wallet is open source and you always control your own keys 00:14.510 --> 00:22.160 All right chill. What's up? 00:25.980 --> 00:29.540 Debra, what's going on man? Yo, yo, what's going on? 00:30.100 --> 00:33.620 How's it going? Oh, two two different vibes. You got like chill 00:35.420 --> 00:38.580 He's having a party over there and yes 00:39.120 --> 00:42.100 I'm in a party tail. He's just just a little more chill a little more relaxed 00:42.960 --> 00:43.720 How's it going? 00:44.000 --> 00:50.620 You definitely bring the vibe to minaretopia that's for sure both of you 00:51.120 --> 00:53.060 Appreciate you guys participating 00:55.120 --> 00:58.280 Change it up a little bit this year i'm excited so we can do 01:00.020 --> 01:04.160 Yeah, let's let's tell let's tell the people let's tell them about what we're thinking here 01:04.160 --> 01:09.720 So the hackathon thing actually is something that luke parker at the last minaretopia kept going up to us 01:09.720 --> 01:12.400 He's like you guys got to do a hack done next year. You guys got to do 01:12.400 --> 01:15.260 He was like watching you guys in the workshop and everything 01:15.860 --> 01:21.680 I was like, yeah, sure hackathon and then so they did one at minaret con which is cool 01:22.420 --> 01:28.020 Um, yeah, I know. I'm not sure what exactly came of it. I know they there was like a there were some winners 01:28.960 --> 01:35.780 But now I think you guys kind of paid attention to that learning from it and goal here do a hackathon 01:36.340 --> 01:39.320 And actually walk away with some useful 01:40.000 --> 01:42.520 product that that can come out of it 01:42.520 --> 01:44.020 Useful it's key word 01:44.520 --> 01:47.860 Right not just theoretical, but actually like a working a working thing 01:47.860 --> 01:52.400 Like a real improvement in the minaret space that that that could be used by the community 01:52.940 --> 01:53.340 by the 01:53.340 --> 01:57.040 We want to create ground zero to have 01:57.620 --> 02:03.480 a little sanctuary for innovation within the minaret ecosystem at minaretopia 02:04.680 --> 02:05.660 and we 02:06.420 --> 02:09.400 don't want to water down the focus so it's 02:10.320 --> 02:16.640 Going to be focused on one of the most widely used open source self-hosted 02:17.400 --> 02:24.760 payment processors a btc pay server as you guys know that rick has done a lot of work in integrating 02:24.760 --> 02:25.600 Um 02:26.320 --> 02:30.980 btc pay server monero on the monero side with umbrail 02:30.980 --> 02:32.580 um, he also 02:34.240 --> 02:40.520 Integrated a monero node with umbrail. So uh, so never you should you should be given a talk too, man 02:40.520 --> 02:42.120 Why don't you why don't you give a talk this year? 02:43.780 --> 02:44.700 I don't know 02:44.700 --> 02:49.560 I feel like uh, uh, I feel like I'm better on the ground building shit 02:49.560 --> 02:53.100 I can definitely talk and you know, I can definitely talk and 02:53.100 --> 02:56.700 Spuse some ideas, but I feel like we got a pretty good community of 02:57.620 --> 03:03.260 Of individuals out here doing doing god's work like bowdy coming in these past couple years listening to him 03:03.260 --> 03:06.320 I haven't even given him his shout outs or even talk to him 03:06.320 --> 03:08.360 But uh, just putting in work out there man 03:08.360 --> 03:10.920 So like I feel like all the people on the ground out there 03:10.920 --> 03:16.640 Let's me get down and do my work and sit quietly and you know, that's how we got uh umbral to 03:17.140 --> 03:20.200 Merge the pr request to get uh monero out there 03:20.200 --> 03:25.200 We got over over 3 000 downloads already. So I mean if you think about if we had 20 30 03:25.740 --> 03:30.260 20 000 nodes out there. We already set, you know up the 4 000 out there in the past couple months 03:30.260 --> 03:34.320 That's a significant portion of the network that's getting rammed by umbra right now 03:34.740 --> 03:41.500 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 03:41.500 --> 03:44.460 Obviously one of the big things I'm looking to do is make it easier 03:44.980 --> 03:49.500 Not only for the users but also for the merchants. I feel like you know over the past couple years 03:49.500 --> 03:52.640 We haven't done a really good job of improving the merchant space 03:53.220 --> 03:59.100 Um, so btc pay server being one of the best merchant solutions out there. That's free open source software 03:59.100 --> 04:05.340 I wanted to take an opportunity to dig in make some improvements there that there had already been some requests to improve some 04:06.280 --> 04:10.440 Um integrations and features within the platform, but there still is a lot to be desired 04:11.020 --> 04:16.200 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 04:16.920 --> 04:18.380 um, not only that 04:19.500 --> 04:22.280 2.0 is coming out. I reached out to 04:22.980 --> 04:29.640 BTC pay server and let them know about the hackathon and nicholas dorrier the the creator btc pay server immediately responded 04:29.640 --> 04:30.400 And was like hey 04:30.400 --> 04:36.100 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 04:36.100 --> 04:39.740 So if you know anybody wants to start contributing not only are we going to make some improvements 04:39.740 --> 04:45.280 But we also have to anticipate what 2.0 is going to look like when it comes to all coin support 04:45.280 --> 04:52.020 Um, and essentially what's happening is a lot of the code is being a lot of the payment code is being extracted away 04:52.020 --> 04:54.720 um from the core code base and each one of the 04:55.580 --> 04:58.260 Um cryptocurrencies will be added as a plug-in 04:58.260 --> 05:02.720 So someone needs to lead the charge to create that plug-in from an arrow and get it out there 05:03.280 --> 05:07.060 So i'm happy to kind of help get the team together and start getting getting work done 05:07.720 --> 05:13.180 That's fantastic. Yeah, I'll I'll let she'll finish her her thoughts before I for chime in again 05:13.660 --> 05:17.320 Well the goal the goal. Um, so it's twofold 05:17.320 --> 05:23.640 We want to first refine the user experience for both the vendors and the developers 05:24.360 --> 05:25.820 and really boost 05:27.260 --> 05:28.620 usability and 05:29.240 --> 05:31.260 Create like measurable adoption 05:31.260 --> 05:37.740 Just like davrick said we can see with the nodes as well like how many downloads we can see exactly a measure 05:38.620 --> 05:45.960 His work from last year with the workshop and monarotopia. We can see, you know, the impact now a year later 05:45.960 --> 05:48.060 So we want to create something similar 05:48.940 --> 05:51.700 and secondly, we also want to 05:52.160 --> 05:53.440 You know bring together 05:54.260 --> 06:00.920 Privacy nerds developers who's you know, our hearts are beating for the same cause and we want to 06:01.580 --> 06:04.280 You know create a little group of these, you know 06:04.280 --> 06:05.400 pioneering 06:06.180 --> 06:08.280 individuals who are interested 06:08.840 --> 06:10.220 overall in 06:10.220 --> 06:16.340 improving btc pay server, you know integration to umbrail and maybe future 06:17.000 --> 06:22.760 Um, you know monero nodo like who knows like this is just the beginning. Like I said it's ground zero 06:23.320 --> 06:25.920 So, um, we want yeah, so this 06:26.660 --> 06:26.960 Yeah 06:27.800 --> 06:30.480 No, no fatality. Yeah, hoping hoping to get um 06:30.480 --> 06:33.400 Abdullah down there as well 06:34.320 --> 06:40.980 If you recall to if you recall to dug like day one of when we were talking about the monero nodo some years back 06:40.980 --> 06:42.740 I had made some comments about 06:43.280 --> 06:48.920 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 06:48.920 --> 06:52.860 To launch a solution that allows them to receive payments 06:52.860 --> 06:59.680 Including pos system solution accounting capabilities. It can't just be a qr code where bro's receiving a payment 06:59.680 --> 07:04.320 Like that's great, but I'd like to see it where we can make multiple pay payouts to individuals 07:04.320 --> 07:08.260 Let's say we're we're hosting an event and you want to set a defined list of individuals 07:08.260 --> 07:12.560 That should receive a percentage of the proceeds for some type of donation campaign and things like this 07:12.560 --> 07:14.320 there's a lot of kind of just like 07:14.880 --> 07:19.160 Opportunity and btc pay server and and I want us not to only just like focus on monero 07:19.160 --> 07:22.880 But just think more openly about the idea of like improving btc pay server 07:22.880 --> 07:26.740 Because any improvement to that platform is an improvement to monero in general 07:27.420 --> 07:30.960 So, you know keep keep eyes on improving monero and the integration there 07:30.960 --> 07:37.060 Let's get the plug-in ready to go for 2.0. Let's improve some of the work around like remote node integrations 07:37.060 --> 07:41.100 I've seen a lot of requests to ensure that we can get some type of remote node capabilities there 07:41.100 --> 07:46.940 That way if a merchant wanted to run btc pay server for some type of event or even within their shop 07:46.940 --> 07:50.440 They don't necessarily have to run a node. Yeah, that's what I was going to ask 07:51.340 --> 07:54.880 Remotely, right? Let's say they run the node at home, but they don't want to run it in the shop 07:54.880 --> 07:58.460 You know, like there's a lot of like opportunity kind of like diversify your architecture 07:58.840 --> 08:04.180 Um, but do that in a simple way, right? Like I'm all about the one-click insulate installations for 08:04.640 --> 08:09.220 Um, some of those onboarding people or people that are coming into the ecosystem and trying to learn 08:09.220 --> 08:12.000 But they can't dive in and figure out all the firewall stuff 08:12.000 --> 08:16.360 It's usually home networking security stuff that they don't know it has nothing to do with with moneros 08:16.920 --> 08:20.720 Um, so it's it's about making it easy making it secure for them to do 08:21.400 --> 08:24.020 And then over time we teach them how to migrate to more 08:24.620 --> 08:26.220 More concrete solutions 08:26.880 --> 08:30.060 More robust solutions that let them be and even more control 08:31.500 --> 08:36.140 Um, I know we talked about this and if if you can make this happen, this would be amazing 08:36.140 --> 08:38.320 If by the end of manara manarotopia 08:38.800 --> 08:45.740 There's a way for me to easily add btc pay server as a pay as as a payment option for 08:45.740 --> 08:52.240 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 08:52.780 --> 09:00.100 I know it obviously can be done. It's really not super difficult, but it's not as new friendly as 09:01.020 --> 09:07.000 Actually the manaro the how you currently set up manaro gateway and manaro gateway isn't isn't really the most reliable 09:08.120 --> 09:13.520 Um way to go in terms of accepting manaro payments is like it works, but it's a little it's a little unreliable 09:13.520 --> 09:16.620 It's a little clunky. So if there's a way where you know, I'm a word 09:17.380 --> 09:19.900 Manarotopia is our wordpress. We use WooCommerce 09:19.900 --> 09:25.420 If I could just in a few clicks get btc pay server running up through WooCommerce 09:26.160 --> 09:28.620 Um, that would be huge. I know that would be big for me 09:28.620 --> 09:31.780 And I think that'd be impactful for a lot of other people out there who say okay 09:31.780 --> 09:36.720 I would definitely add manaro to my to my checkout. I use wordpress. I use WooCommerce 09:36.720 --> 09:39.420 There's so many people that fall into that that category 09:39.860 --> 09:42.360 Um, and they could they could start, you know 09:42.980 --> 09:47.060 Accepting manaro through btc pay server via WooCommerce. What do you think could that 09:47.600 --> 09:51.580 Potentially be something that comes out of this? Well, that's that's already supported today 09:51.580 --> 09:55.560 If you just google WooCommerce btc pay server, you'll see their great documentation 09:55.560 --> 09:59.420 Where they pretty much walked through the process of integrating this into like a wordpress site 09:59.980 --> 10:00.560 So the only thing