The Orange Pill - Pitch
Vision
Our vision is bringing bitcoin to the ground and let people touch it via hardware-based applications.
Problem
Most bitcoin new users are introduced and helped by a mentor. The near friend or relative that gives trust to this process and brakes the initial barrier. This requires time, a lot of questions and is still something magic for those new because they can not feel it in his hands. Can this be improved?
Solution
The OrangePill is small hardware pill that enables a new social mechanism to approach bitcoin from the physical side. The OrangePill lets you onboard, gift, transfer or sell bitcoin in a physical, safe and reusable way. So, after receiving a pill and being onboarded, you can repeat the same process with others.
The OrangePill has two main actors, the sender and the receiver. The sender can store bitcoin without knowing the seed, the receiver can unlock the pill and get the seed. When this is finished, the receiver is able to reboot the pill to do the same with others.
The receiver has basic documentation even an app to do this process accompanied.
Main applications
This mechanism can be used on two main applications:
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Onboard new people: using a funny and friendly device to help new people start on bitcoin
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Trusted cash device: using a community trusted device to hold bitcoin and use it as cash. Rebooting and refilling it as many times is needed.
How it was built
Both the mobile app and the business platform use LNURL-auth as the core technology for authentication.
Our tech stack:
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Hardware: Kicad
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Firmware: Arduino / PlatformIO
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Web:
Team
The team is mainly .
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Bitmaker - Business Developer + Hardware Manager
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Gzuus - UI/UX designer
Roadmap
We almost finished our MVP and we plan to make an initial production to have some feedback. We are finishing product casing, epoxy cover and last software tests. We don't need an app by now but pretend to make it to make it easier for new people
Q1/2023 > Make an initial presale + work on basic app
Q2/2023 > Send first batch
Related fresh ideas
The process to create the pill made us grow in knowledge and were planning to design more pills like this with other properties. A black pill with HWwallet capabilities able to sign transactions in an ultrasmall form factor.