2024 - snickerbar.me

For Halloween of 2024, I had been experimenting with ecash and was having a blast with stacker.news. I decided to pass out ecash tokens to the parents of trick or treaters to encourage bitcoin adoption in our neighborhood. I forked cashu.me and engaged in some coding that was way over my head and mostly a learning experience for me. The results varied from "eh" to "aight" and fun was had by all. I chronicled that spooky season in a post exposing my coding ineptitude, making a spooky crossword puzzle for stackers, iterating, mashing up Janet Yellen and Metallica to @DarthCoin's delight, and ultimately passing out small amount of sats while playing music by David Lynch on a DX-7.

It was a fun time.

2025 - They don't celebrate Halloween in Mossel Bay

South African townships have witches. I never met one, but I heard quite a bit about them, and sadly, it was mostly from scared children. I've been told that the witches are responsible for gangs, substance abuse, and general violence in the townships. What was very sad to me was the amount of talismans I saw children wearing to "protect" themselves from witches. There is a very real bondage there, and as I was in Mossel Bay for Halloween 2025, we kept it low key and at home.

My wife and I personally do believe that there is a supernatural realm, but are thoroughly convinced that talismans, incantations, and other charms do nothing to protect people from evil. So, at home, we kept our American traditions, which are solely for fun and pretend. We made costumes out of paper. The kids did trick or treat to the rooms my wife and I separated to in the two bedroom apartment. We used what was available to make little jack 'o lanterns.

And in doing so, almost burnt the place down.

If you're wondering, no, I do not recommend at this point that you fill a gem squash with kerosene soaked fire starters.

We finished the night with some kid-friendly spooky stories. Alas, last Halloween featured no caramel apples, no hayrides, no corn mazes, and worst of all, NO ECASH!

2026 - Making up for lost time

The mills of God have done their dance, and now I can...VIBE CODE! What that translates to is a whole new level of usability of this free ecash for my neighbors. Here is https://snickerbar-me.vercel.app/ for 2026.

Tonight is Trunk or Treat, and boy-howdy, do I have a treat in my trunk.

Now when someone scans a card with their phone camera, they get a temporary wallet right out of the gate with the sats already in it. There is no app or sign-up. Then, with one tap, they can move the sats to a wallet they own (Coinos, Strike, Wallet of Satoshi, Cash App, anything with a Lightning address).

Do it yourself!

So obviously, tonight will be a fun test, but I'm also using this on beggar's night, and you can too! In fact, I've also improved the UI from the issuer's side. You can watch the tokens get claimed in real time:

_{As promised in the title, here's your free ecash. First come, first serve.}

I also made, "porch mode" so you can keep a screen up for people to scan one at a time with a little visual hooray with each claim.

Also, now you can make much bigger cashu tokens in which the QR is actually scannable. I'm thinking of making a few of them humongous so a few people can go buy a shake at Steak 'n Shake.

To get started, fund a wallet and hit **send**. Then follow the steps to making your tokens! Let me know how it goes!

Happy Halloween!

https://snickerbar-me.vercel.app/