For week 3 of our sprint, we are focusing on building out our Lightning payment infrastructure for testing and development using Polar. With Polar, we are able to:

1. Visualize our entire lightning network

2. Quickly identify channel balances

3. Manage all our Lightning nodes and networks with just one click

We would continue to explore how far we can go with building our Lightning payment infrastructure on Polar over the course of the week.

Our goal with Pennybit still remains to empower young Africans with world-class payment tools and services.

To-Dos 🤌🏼

• Finalize implementation of UI for Mobile application

• Create a stable build of Pennybit's mobile application on Flutter

• Complete implementation of Pennybit's web application

• Deploy Pennybit's web application to live

Achievements 🎖️

• Created the documentation for Pennybit's API. This can be assessed here: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/17179393/2s84DrRMuJ

• Pennybit's API is now also live on Heroku, accessible here: https://pennybit.herokuapp.com/

• Pennybit's Github repo chronicling all features and progress so far: https://github.com/Toheeb-Ojuolape/pennybit

Thinking... 🤔

• Although we've found Polar to be a viable option for testing out and creating Lightning networks in testing and development environment, we don't know how well it would perform in production.

• We're currently exploring the option of including a feature that would support Inernational remittance to African kids/teens from their friends and family across the world using Lightning.

• We're also considering building an API-based solution that plugs into learning institutions to enable parents send allowance and pocket money to their kids month in Bitcoin.

Happy Hacking ✌🏼