/btc-hotspot

:zap: A captive portal system accepting bitcoin payments over the lightning network protocol :zap:

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btc-hotspot ⚡ ⚡

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Overview

The application is a hotspot paywall where clients can pay the owner via bitcoin over the lightning network, it's designed to run on a home server like the raspberry-pi. Clients do not provide personal information neither credit card details, they buy a certain "offer" from the paywall which then enables a session for his/her device, offers are made by the owner who can define the price and the amount of time or data to be sold to the client.The payment is done using the lightning network and it enables the client to pay instantly and with minimum transaction fees.

This software is provided "as is" with no warranty for damages or money loss. Lincense: GPL3

Requirements

Currently it has been tested only on a raspberry-pi 3 model B, it has shown to be able to run the bundle of btc-hotspot+eclair without major drawbacks and it's a popular and cheap solution.

Setup

Please refer to install

Developer resources

Please check out the build instructions and feel free to open issues or submit pull requests, any feedback is very welcome!

Author: a.raspitzu at protonmail dot com