Thoughts
Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.
Everything Around the Charge
The request that takes a payment is four lines. Everything that makes it safe to build a business on, so a retry never double-charges and a dropped webhook never loses an order, is the actual work. How I shaped Paybit's crypto payments API on the pattern Stripe proved.
A Payment Gateway That Never Touches the Money
A payment processor is, by definition, the thing that holds your money for a moment. Paybit is my attempt to delete that moment: a non-custodial crypto gateway that splits every payment on-chain, and for Bitcoin watches your own wallet instead of holding a key.