Bitcoin Lightning Publisher for WordPress vs Exodox

Bitcoin Lightning Publisher is a Paywall, Donation and Value 4 Value plugin for WordPress to accept instant Bitcoin Lightning payments. It allows you to monetize any digital content with instant microtransactions and receive payments from your visitors directly to your preferred wallet – no need for expensive service providers. The plugin is the easiest and most flexible plugin to sell your digital content and to receive donations or Value 4 Value payments. Using the Bitcoin Lightning Network you can create the best visitor experience with seamless one-click payments. Benefits for you, the publisher: – Monetize any digital content with instant microtransactions – Create custom paywalls according to your needs – Best and fastest checkout payment experience – Superior paywall user experience – Save payment fees by using the inexpensive Bitcoin Lightning Network – no need to payment service providers – Receive payments directly in your preferred wallet (see “Lightning node connections”) Benefits for your vistors/customers: – Seamless one-click payments and quick access to the content – Global availability – let customers from around the world send you payments through the open Bitcoin payment network Use Case Examples: – Accept donations / Value 4 Value payments from your visitors – Monetize any digital content on your website: Articles, pages, file, videos, music, podcasts – Receive payments (boosts and boostagrams) from podcasting apps via the Podcasting 2.0 podcast:value RSS standard – Integrate payments with your website functionality – many more Features Paywall to sell content Sell any digital content (pay-per-post, pay-per-view, pay-per-download, etc.) with a highly configurable paywall WebLN enabled by default for easy on-click payments Add a paywall to posts and pages to easily charge for any published content Crowdfund option: make the content freely available after a certain amount is received Time-in option: keep the article freely available for a certain time and then enable the paywall after that Time-out option: make the article freely available after a certain time Configure the price in Satoshis, EUR, USD, or GBP (with real-time exchange rate) Configure the paywall with a shortcode ([lnpaywall]) Or configure the paywall with a Gutenberg Block Integrate with other tools and plugins like membership tools to control if the paywall should be enabled (see Paywall Hook section) Donation / Value 4 Value payments The plugin comes with various options to receive donations and Value 4 Value payments. Gutenberg block for a donation widget Donation widget for themes Enable the Lightning meta tag to allow users to send payments (Value 4 Value) Enable the podcast:value tag in your RSS feed to receive payments for your podcast Lightning Node connections Connect to your existing Bitcoin Lightning node or simply create a new Alby account to instantly receive Lightning payments. Alby LND LNDHub (e.g. BlueWallet) LNBits BTCPay Server Lightning Address REST-API for full advanced custom usage For more advanced, custom Lightning integrations you can use the REST API to create and verify invoices. The API also provides a LNURL-pay endpoint. See the REST-API section for details. Documentation Refer to the readme on GitHub for documentation and more details on how to use the plugin. Additional Info Contributing This plugin is free and open source. We welcome and appreciate new contributions. Visit the code repository and help us to improve the plugin. Donations Want to support the work on this plugin? Support the team behind it and send some sats to this Bitcoin Lightning Address [email protected]

Exodox is a unique service for anyone publishing on the web and gives you the opportunity to make money from your web content. Using the Exodox plugin you can lock selected posts and pages on your WordPress site, which your readers can then unlock with a one-off payment. You decide which links you want to lock and to which price. Every month your money is paid out to you. You can read more and create your Exodox account at https://www.exodox.link/ A complement to adverts, collaborations and subscriptions Exodox offers a new source of income for anyone who publishes on the web: Bloggers can get paid for their creativity as a complement to advertising and sponsorship. News sites and magazines can attract new customers as an alternative to subscriptions. Non-profit sites and associations can offer optional ways to donate by offering access to select content such as interviews, meetings, video and competitions among other things. With Exodox, your consumers and followers have the opportunity to show appreciation for your commitment, giving you an added motivation to create more content. The possibilities are endless! One-off payments without the need for subscription With an Exodox account, it’s easy and quick to pay for access to your exclusive web content. There are no subscriptions, fixed fees, startup fees or binding periods. If you do not use the Exodox service, no costs are incurred. A recent survey showed that 75% who encounter a so-called payment wall with the requirement to start a subscription have left the page. Had they instead been given the opportunity to make a fair one-off payment, 73% would have chosen this. You decide! You decide which posts and pages you want to lock, the price and how long your readers can have access for. Your readers only pay for the specific links they choose to unlock. Only one account needed Exodox works much like a global transaction platform. The big advantage is that you only need one account, which gives you the opportunity to access content from all connected internet media and websites globally, such as newspapers, magazines, fan sites, blogs and more. Free of charge and free of risk An Exodox account is completely free of charge and without any binding period. In other words, you pay no running costs and nothing for your account. As a publisher this means that your use of Exodox is completely risk-free. If you, for some reason do not sell, there is no financial loss either. Testimonials from Exodox publishers: “With Exodox, my readers can choose whether to pay for my exclusive content or read my regular content for free.” “As a person, I like to try new ways that allow me to develop. That’s why I decided to use Exodox on my blog.” “I think it is important to offer variation on my blog and create content that is interesting to my readers. With an extra income, I can spend more time developing my content.” “It is very easy to lock a link on my blog, it takes at most a minute! If you are a blogger I definitely think you should try Exodox.” “Exodox gives our bloggers an opportunity to make money in addition to traditional sources of revenue such as advertising and partnerships. It’s a good complement.” “The installation of the plugin was easy and it was quick to get started with the account. The fact that the technology works is really important to feel secure when publishing my posts.” “Exodox is free to use, so you don’t lose anything by trying it!” External services This Exodox plugin connects to the external Exodox Link host application. The Exodox Link host application provides the following services for the plugin: Management of Exodox accounts and the login and authentication of users Payment handling Information of what user have access to what content Locking of links and associated information Exodox link provides the following information to the plugin: The login status and associated user Exodox user id of visitors to your site Information of locks on your site Exodox user access to locked content If the optional api key is set in the plugin settings the Exodox host may also provide information about the host user and settings to the plugin The Exodox plugin provided the following information to the Exodox host: The Exodox user id that owns specific links on the site, this is used to ensure no other user may lock that link. When a unknown user visits the site. the information is used to check if the visitor is a logged in Exodox user. Exodox user requests to unlock content. If the optional api key is set in the plugins settings the plugin may provide Exodox lock and update requests with url, price and duration. Exodox Link is provided by “Exodox Factory AB”. Terms of use and privacy policy can be found here: privacy policy, general terms and conditions, user terms and conditions.