Alby Browser Extension Bounties
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Integrate Lightning payments in a music player
Add Value 4 Value to a RSS Reader
Add tipping support for Mastodon instances
Contribute to the translation of Alby
Guides and videos for developers
This first needs some research on what is possible, but we're pretty excited about this and you'll get detailed support from the Alby team.
Payout: 260k sats
Payout: 260k sats
Payout: 100k sats
Payout: 60k sats for the translation of all strings into one language.
Description: Alby has useful tools to integrate bitcoin lightning payments into web and mobile apps. Let's write use case specific guides for developers to make it even easier to get started. This bounty is for any guide contributions of any form. This can be for example written or as a video.
Payout: 60k sats
Description: Our goal should be to make it as easy as possible for new users to get onboarded and learn how to setup and use Alby. For this Alby needs better user guides. This bounty is for any guide contributions of any form. This can be for example written or as a video. Here are a few ideas:
How to connect Alby to your LND node
How to receiving sats for YouTube (or Soundcloud, or ...) channels and videos
How to setup your WordPress website to receive lightning payments (paywall or tips)
How do podcasting 2.0 Value 4 Value payments work and how are they set up
How to enable Value 4 Value payments for your website
Payout: 30k sats
Requirements:
Submitted wallet should be a fully functioning Liquid Network wallet working in a browser
Wallet should allow to manage both bitcoin and assets issued on Liquid
Wallet should bee characterised with smooth UX that can be easily used by a variety of users
Wallet should have a state of the art UI comparable to other web wallets in order to be attractive to users
Nice to have:
Assets prices displayed in the wallet
Assets logos displayed in the wallet
Wallet is a Progressive Web App
Payout: 2.1 mln sats
Payout: 175k sats
Payout: 400k sats
Payout: 200k sats
Payout: 40k sats
Payout: 40k sats
Description: Alby currently is hyperbitcoinized and only displays amounts in Satoshis. For the user that are not yet hyper-bitcoinized we should provide an option to convert the Satoshi amount to fiat amounts. The user should be able to configure the preferred currency and all amounts should be additionally converted to fiat.
Payout: 300k sats
Issue: ping us if you're interested in working on this.
Payout: 250k sats
Description: Use the to allow users to stream payments from one of the open source music players to the artists.
This bounty requires some research first and we need to check what is possible and then integrate the Alby OAuth API into the players. For example: an idea is to extract lightning payment details (as Alby currently already does) from YouTube channels and videos and allow the or (or some other player) to send payments/boosts to the artists while listening to the tracks.
Also an option could be to add WebLN to a web player like
Description: is a popular hosted and open source RSS reader. Similar to podcast players we can integrate lightning Value 4 Valye payments into an RSS reader. The reader extracts the lightning details (e.g. the keysend information similar to the podcast:value tag) and allows the user to send lightning payments to the author directly from the reader. Integrate WebLN or the Alby OAuth API to make this possible.
Description: Mastodon is a free and open sources, federated microblogging service similar to Twitter. There are active Bitcoin related instances, for example: Similar to the Alby should support tipping of profiles on Mastodon instances.
Issue: #
Bounty patrons: (40k sats).
Description: Contribute to the translation of Alby into your language. See
We pay out this bounty based on the number of strings translated. Please send a screenshot from Weblate of that number with .
How to accept lightning payments for my e-commerce website using an Alby lightning address to request a lightning invoice and to verify payments
Bounty patrons: (160k sats).
Building a web wallet that could be used with the Alby Extension and its . It can be a new wallet or it can be build upon , which is open-source.
Management of
Bounty patrons: (1.05 mln sats)
Description: integrate lightning based Value 4 Value payments that allow listeners (with a player that supports it) to stream payments and send to the podcaster. All this based on open standards. This bounty is to integrate the JavaScript interface into a web audio player that allows podcasters to embed their episodes on their websites and listeners to send boosts from the web. See for example the player on . As player could be used: or or for example.
Description: PeerTube is a free and open-source, decentralized, federated video platform. For example uses peer-tube to provide their great service. Alby already supports tipping to Lightning Addresses on Twitter, YouTube and BitcoinTV. But a native integration of Lightning payments into peer-tube instances would allow much more functionalities for visitors and creators. You can think of a Wordpress widget for accepting Lightning payments but for video platforms running on peer-tube.
Bounty patrons: (300k sats) - anonymous (100k sats)
Description: Alby now supports keysend payments and this means we can now support podcast value4value payments. The has a nice web app and player to show podcast details and play the episodes. Example page: We could add "boost" buttons to allow users to send payments while listening to the episode or simple to send sats to each of the listed recipients. This should be simple to the node keys that the podcastindex already shows.
Bounty patrons: (100k sats) - anonymous (100k sats)
Description: Similar to the Alby should support tipping of profiles on Reddit. Alby can extract lightning address details from the user profile (e.g. )
Issue: #
Bounty patrons: (40k sats).
Description: " is a place to write, read, and connect". Similar to the Alby should support tipping of articles and profiles on . Alby can extract lightning address details from the article and author profile
Bounty patrons: (40k sats).
Issue:
Bounty patrons: (250k sats) - anonymous (50k sats)
Currently worked on. PR:
Description: To connect to nodes behind Tor Alby uses a so called . For and for we have installers to copy the executable and configure the browser to use the companion app. This is missing for Linux. This is basically a simple app that copies some files and generates a browser specific JSON file.