Alright folks, it's been a while since I last poked my head around this neck of the woods but I hope you have all been keeping healthy and out of mischief!
I've been working on integrating Bitcoin payments on my music website thanks to CoinCorner's WordPress plug-in and which allows you to use HIVE or HBD to download my tunes direct!
Perfect if you wanted some background drum & bass or trance music for writing your blogs, playing games or, if you're feeling adventurous, cleaning your room, you messy blighters 😃
The V4Vapp is a value-for-value service created by as a bridge between HIVE & Bitcoin using the lightning network - I've been testing it out over the last few months in general and for my website and it works really well!
Here's how you'd use it if you wanted to download my tunes with HIVE/HBD - or if you are already familiar with lightning, you can start browsing my tunes here and let me know how you get on!
Before You Start
You will need:
- To open the V4Vapp site - click here to open it up
- Have liquid HIVE or HBD available in your Hive wallet
Step 1 - Fill Your Cart With Tunes 😜
Not much point in trying to use the V4Vapp if you have an empty shopping cart is there?!
Browse the catalogue here and add to the cart whatever takes your fancy!
Step 2 - Checkout
Once happy with your selection, head to "My Cart" and then click the "Checkout" button to see the screen below:
- Fill in your first name and email address
- Select "Bitcoin Checkout" and click the Terms and Conditions box
- Click "Place Order"
Step 3 - Copy & Paste The Lightning Invoice to V4Vapp
The next screen will display your order with a QR code (the lightning invoice).
Under the QR code, copy the long sequence of letters and numbers...
...and paste them in to the "Lightning Invoice" field on the V4Vapp website:
Step 4 - Pay In HIVE or HBD
After you have pasted the lightning invoice in, V4Vapp will convert it into a price in HIVE & HBD:
Click either HIVE or HBD (whichever you want to use) and sign the transaction with Keychain or HiveSigner. You will see the message that it was sent successfully:
Note: Any excess change leftover from the V4Vapp transaction will be refunded to your Hive wallet:
Step 5 - Download Your Tunes!
Go back to your cart on my website and click the orange buttons to start your downloads!
Enjoy the tunes!
Feedback
Let me know how you get on with this - I tried it out a couple of times and the whole process was done in a matter of seconds, which was really cool!
Hopefully you find it as slick to use as I did!
Thanks for all the support on my music after 4 and a bit years of sporadically sharing my tunes with you here!
Many more to come once I get some IRL things settled and more tunes added to the site :)
Nicky
P.S. shout out to and the V4Vapp team for creating this service!