Having @PUBPAY.me LIVE at @Adopting Bitcoin may have seemed, from the outside, like “just a simple zap dashboard on a screen” but in reality, it was far more ambitious.
Every single speaking slot in the conference schedule had its own PubPay LIVE.
Before the event, we emailed every speaker explaining how Nostr works, how to create an account if they didn’t already have one, and how to set up a Lightning Address. For the ones who missed the email, we reached out personally. Texting, onboarding, troubleshooting. Whatever it took. We made sure every speaker had the tools to participate. For the speakers who didn’t create their own PubPay LIVE event in time, we displayed a default event created by the conference’s Nostr account.
In total, we got 47 PubPay LIVEs.
On stage, speakers got to experience the magic of Nostr firsthand: sats streamed directly to them in real time, tied to the identity of the payer, often with comments full of love, questions, or even criticism. It was value-for-value in its purest form.
The audience, on the other hand, got the simplest introduction to Nostr imaginable. Anyone could instantly reward their favorite speaker, send a message that appeared both on-screen and on Nostr for the entire world to see, and compete for the top of the leaderboard, gaining visibility, clout, and often advertising their own products.
A total of 325,293 sats were zapped to the speakers' posts.
Nostr was even featured in the official livestream during @npub1au23...t53j talk.
It wasn’t just engagement.
It wasn’t just fun.
We onboarded.
We educated.
We opened a new channel of real-time interaction.
We tested interoperability across Nostr clients under real live pressure.
And the result? We purple-pilled and orange-pilled an entire conference.
What @Pedro 🧨 and I pulled off was nothing short of incredible.
And we’re not stopping.
The goal is to bring PubPay Live to every major Bitcoin conference in 2026.
With everyone’s help, it becomes easier, smoother, and even more impactful.
Who’s in?
It wasn’t just engagement.
It wasn’t just fun.
We onboarded.
We educated.
We opened a new channel of real-time interaction.
We tested interoperability across Nostr clients under real live pressure.
And the result? We purple-pilled and orange-pilled an entire conference.
What @Pedro 🧨 and I pulled off was nothing short of incredible.
And we’re not stopping.
The goal is to bring PubPay Live to every major Bitcoin conference in 2026.
With everyone’s help, it becomes easier, smoother, and even more impactful.
Who’s in?
