Introducing Lightning Piggy ⚡️🐷

We’re excited to launch Lightning Piggy, an electronic cash piggy bank for children that accepts bitcoin sent over lightning, while displaying the amount saved in satoshis.

Our vision is to make sats the savings’ standard for every child. We plan to use this educational platform to inspire future generations, not only to save in satoshis, but also to learn to code and build in a free and open source way.

From an early age, we’re programmed to think in fiat terms. Depending upon our respective cultural upbringing, in many parts of the world our first encounter with money is when the ‘tooth fairy’ visits, followed by being gifted a piggy bank that gets filled with pocket money for doing good deeds. This money is rapidly loosing its purchasing power, and therefore it is useless at storing value.

At the moment, thirteen years since the discovery of bitcoin, there isn’t a fun, child-friendly way for kids to stack sats, and watch their savings grow. To accelerate global adoption we need to have the tools and resources available for bitcoiners of all ages.

Lightning Piggy will for the first time bring the adoption of bitcoin to young people in a real and meaningful way. It also opens the door to STEM subject learning opportunities via affordable home/school development kits, and encourages the use of one’s imagination and creativity through design and building.