Open Source the Forum + Integrate sBTC for Real Use

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#1

yo stackers,

With sBTC live and adoption growing, this forum (that I follow for a while) is becoming the go-to spot for booster ideas and amazing progress. But it’s not open source.

I’d like to propose we open source the forum and evolve it into an experimental space where devs and users can actually use sBTC—send, receive, tip, fund posts, bounties, etc. as a way to test satoshis in the Stacks Network.

Benefits I see:

  • More community contribution (plugins, tools, experiments)
  • Direct feedback loops for Stacks projects.
  • New layer of interaction using sats (research funding, dev support, tipping, etc.)

This could be rolled out in stages:

  1. Open source the forum repo.
  2. Allow optional wallet connections (Xverse, Leather, etc.).
  3. Enable sats actions within threads and replies.

Stacks is about composability and open collaboration—let’s make the forum reflect that spirit.

Eager to read your thoughts :))

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#2

You’re right, it would be cool if the Stacks forum used wallet login and enabled micropayments and other Stacks integrations. I would guess that this forum is just using Discourse, so it’s technically already open source. Someone from the Stacks Foundation might know if it is self-hosted or using one of their hosting plans. I’m not familiar with how their plugin system works, but maybe your ideas are possible using plugins.

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#3

Yes, I wonder who of the Stacks Foundation would be able to put green light on this.

#4

We have it already:

  • Sigle is open source and supports minting articles in sbtc by @leopradel
  • BoostX allows tipping posts on X in sbtc by crypto dude
  • Derupt allows content creation with PoX Light incentives by crypto dude
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#5

We used to have wallet login - i wrote the initial version. It’s open source in the stacks-archive. I’m sure if someone wants to resurrect it and update to use the latest stacks and discourse standards, someone at the foundation would be able to green light assuming it works well.

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