Story behind launching the first lightning powered book.

Story: A few months back, I was catching up with a high-school friend at Bitcoin Meetup in Toronto. It just so happened to be Jesse, the author of the incredible book Magic Internet Money. After a beer (maybe three), we thought – why not republish his book and power it by lightning.

Rather than forcing a large purchase – make it chapter by chapter with the power of lightning being able to charge any amount. This made perfect sense given the serialized nature of the book. Unique questions, comments and overview about Bitcoin are outlined in crisp, chapters. I want to read-when-I-want-to-enjoy... so why couldn't I pay-as-I-enjoy? This is something we are working to enable for all sorts of content.

Long story short – after a short-push, we launched the book a few months back (launch tweet), released an open-source lightning book starter template with Gatsby (launch tweet)– and have had a few other books launch as well.

So why not go, check them out and support the amazing authors, providing amazing content about Bitcoin, and bringing it to the world?

• Bitcoin: Everything divided by 21 Million – Knut Svanholm

• Magic Internet Money: A book about Bitcoin – Jesse Berger

• The Bitcoin Dog: Following The Scent To The Bitcoin C++ Source Code – Will Schoellkopf

I'm Jared from the Mash team – and we appreciate any scarce time you can take to share what you want to help monetize your content, apps, tools and games with lightning. Thanks fall for your time, and hope that this was interesting!