Presenting Athenut – privacy-preserving web search powered by Kagi and Cashu

Always wanted to use Kagi but thought it's a joke that a privacy search engine requires you to create an account and pay with a credit card?

We have something for you! Athenut wraps around the Kagi API and lets you pay for searches with Bitcoin. Every individual search is paid for with ecash which means that you have no account and your payments can't be correlated to your searches.

👉 👈athenut.com

Here is a little story of how I built a #Bitcoin Lightning payments app used by more than 10,000 users at the time running on two Raspberry Pi's from my bedroom.

My conclusion: The banks are so fvcked ☠️ You're looking at the physical form of the early @LightningTipB0t, a Telegram bot with a Bitcoin Lightning wallet.

The whole setup has been moved to professional hardware in a data center ever since which is why I can share this curious story that I wanted to tell for so long.

Happy to present Cashu - a Chaumian Ecash wallet and mint with early #Bitcoin Lightning support.

Disclaimer: I'm not a cryptographer. There are likely serious bugs in Cashu. I've built this over the weekend, so it's very unfinished and probably broken.

github.com/callebtc/cashu Here is a quick video demonstration of what it looks like. The flow has changed a little bit so if you wanna try yourself, make sure to read the readme in the git repo.

streamable.com/t4bshg

Here is a list of resources that I found helpful when setting up and managing my Lightning Network⚡️ node.

🧵👇 Finding good nodes to connect to can be hard. Lightning Node Match uses some basic network analysis to tell you which other nodes will improve the connectivity of yours when connected to.
moneni.com/nodematch