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Thanks! Yeah, I think in the case of the QR code for the street performer, he's just best off with a lightning address, right? I've actually sold a handful of cds after shows with lightning address just because I can verify in person. Here, I'm focusing more on paywall specifically for something downloadable. I might be hearing your suggestion wrong though.
And yeah, I totally agree that it'd be great if I could keep this all self contained. That would lower the barrier to entry astronomically. I had a friend already who put in his blink account ID instead of wallet ID on the wallet linking page. However, I'm still afraid building a whole wallet is too risky for someone at my level of technical knowledge...at least for now...
I was gonna say that the hard part is finding an audience with sats. But I was in New Orleans last weekend and saw a really great street performer. Of course, I didn't have very much cash. He had QRs for Paypal and Venmo, but I don't have either. I would have zapped him if he'd had a lightning QR or address.
I like how you're thinking about a very specific moment: the guitar case at a live performance, specifically when abroad and not carrying the monetary app of the land. Bitcoin totally fixes this.
But...there's still the problem of finding an audience with bitcoin.
I went through the flow on Direct Current. My main suggestion would be to figure out a way to give the user a lightning address (either by grabbing it from Blink or figuring out how to proxy). I would think that it would be really handy to have a dead simple way to be able to print out a qr code that a user can set up near wherever they are performing.
Second suggestion is that it's a bummer users have to go off-site to get the Blink wallet set up. It would be really slick if this was something that could happen in the app. I think you could probably get there with cashu or possibly via some unholy usage of Breez/Spark/Liquid.
But I love how you are thinking about this!