CrowdBucks Demo (FediCon 2025)
by Charles Iliya Krempeaux @reiver

CrowdBucks Demo (FediCon 2025)
by Charles Iliya Krempeaux @reiver
CrowdBucks Demo — Charles Iliya Krempeaux — FediCon 2025
I am working on editing @reiver 's FediCon 2025 demo right now.
(Is it weird that I am talking about myself in the 3rd-person?)
Once it is edited, I will upload it to the FediCon PeerTube account:
My #FediForumFriday for today is — the CrowdBucks source-code is here:
https://codeberg.org/crowdbucks
It is MVP right now.
So A LOT more work needs to be done, but — it works.
Why CrowdBucks?
Because the Fediverse deserves its own infrastructure — including funding tools.
No Patreon. No Ko-fi. No lock-in.
CrowdBucks — Fediverse native, self-hostable, and open-source.
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I have been looking for (working) Payment-Pointers being used by others.
But, ever time I find one — it doesn't work (mostly because one provides seems to have stopped working).
...
For example, over here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250222120416/https://pupper-pages.glitch.me/
If I look at the HTML source-code, I see a Payment-Pointer.
But the host in the Payment-Pointer doesn't work.
#CrowdBucks #FediDev #Fediverse #PaymentPointer #PeerTube #WebMonetization
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I implemented Simple Payment Setup Protocol (SPSP) (from scratch) in the Go programming-language.
https://github.com/reiver/go-spsp
Base on the specification I found before.
#CrowdBucks #FediDev #Fediverse #Golang #PaymentPointer #PeerTube #WebMonetization
Package spsp implements the Simple Payment Setup Protocol (SPSP), for the Go programming language. The Simple Payment Setup Protocol (SPSP) is used by the Interledger Protocol, Open Payments, Web M...
CrowdBucks is for:
🖥 Admins who need help with server costs
🛠 Fediverse developers building open-source software
🎨 Artists, writers, musicians on Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Loops, etc
🤝 Mutual aid groups & community spaces
🧩 If you’re part of the Fediverse, it’s for you.
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I found some updates for the https://paymentpointers.org/ web-site that haven't been deployed:
https://github.com/interledger/paymentpointers.org/pull/57/files
Some of it confirms things I suspected. But, there is also new information in there.
#CrowdBucks #FediDev #Fediverse #PaymentPointer #WebMonetization
Payment Pointers are a standardized identifier for payment accounts. In the same way that an email address provides an identifier for a mailbox in the email ecosystem a payment pointer is used by an account holder to share the details of their account with a counter-party.
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I implemented Payment Pointers (from scratch) in the Go programming-language.
https://github.com/reiver/go-pymtptr
Base on the specification I found before.
#CrowdBucks #FediDev #Fediverse #Golang #PaymentPointer #PeerTube #WebMonetization
Package pymtptr implements an Payment Pointers, for the Go programming language. Payment Pointers are used by the Interledger Protocol, Open Payments, and Web Monetization. - reiver/go-pymtptr