roygbiv.guide: a BOLT12-Prism-native Website
When gigi first wrote his famous post on Lightning Prisms, he listed a few use cases for Prisms. The first example he gave was this:
That's a neat idea! We figured that with idea of BOLT12-Prisms now implemented, we should apply it to this use case. That's what roygbiv.guide is, a new form of Value4Value website backed by BOLT12-Prisms.
Tipping Model
Each main post on roygbiv.guide is assigned a unique BOLT12 Prism Offer. This means that anyone can tip that offer, and sats will be split among the contributors of the post in accordance with the associated policy.
Tip specific posts
That's really nice. Being able to tip specific content allows readers to show appreciation to the creators directly involved with the creation of that content. In the spirit of Value4Value, each post contains "The Ask", or a short stanza that encourages tips for value provided.
We expect that most tipping will target specific content/posts.
Create a Global Payout Prism
We don't need to constrain ourselves to tipping specific posts. What if you wanted to tip the entire website and split your precious sats among all contributors among all the posts? Well, that's possible with BOLT12-prisms using local prism composability (discussed below).
Here's a visual of the overall structure:
Tips come in on the "root prism offer" (at tip@roygbiv.guide) and get split evenly among the top-level posts. Your sats are split between the /v4v post (this post) which gets a third, the /demo post gets a third, and the original ROYGBIV team members at /about the remaining third. This feature is great if you just want to leave a big fat tip to the overall ROYGBIV effort, sending sats to contributors of the entire website.
Local Prism Composability
As you can see from the diagram above, roygbiv.guide makes use of local prism composability–that is, in the root tip prism, member destinations are Prism Offers issued by the local Lightning Node. We colloquially refer to this this as Explicit Pay-to-Self Destination (PTSD), a feature enabled by Core Lighting's BOLT12 pay-to-self functionality.
v24.08.As you can imagine, payouts to local prism offers happen immediately and outlays are almost always 0. That's because the local node is online and payouts succeed immediately.
BIP-353
Adding BIP353 DNS records makes it easy for users to type in a short name to resolve the BOLT12 Prism Offer so they can quickly tip contributors. BIP353 really is tangential to the BOLT12-Prism functionality, but improves the overall user experience for the website. Each tip button on the site includes its BIP353 moniker.
lightning:lno235238623. This seems to work well with Phoenix wallet which has BOLT12 support. The button text has an associated BIP353 moniker, but encodes the offer directly in the link.Regardless, here is the structure of the BIP353 records for roygbiv.guide:
| Website Path | BIP353 |
|---|---|
| / | tip@roygbiv.guide |
| /about | about@roygbiv.guide |
| /demo | demo@roygbiv.guide |
| /v4v | v4v@roygbiv.guide |
| /blog/post0 | post0@blog.roygbiv.guide |
| /blog/post1 | post1@blog.roygbiv.guide |
Basically at the root, you can tip tip@roygbiv.guide. Any tips sent to the root of the website are split evenly among the Prism Offers of the main posts as discussed above. Any sats arriving on a Prism Offer are then split according to that post's prism policy.
Blog
Blog entries are treated separately from the above workflow. Blog posts have their own dedicated offer to tip, which may or may not be backed by a prism. Typically the post will NOT be backed by a prism when it has a single author. Posts having multiple authors are typically backed by a prism which may be hosted by any contributor of the post.
Like the format of the BOLT12-Prism Value4Value website? If so, consider tipping the prism below. All contributions are split evenly among the contributors listed below.
