How To Make Cashu Cards And Redeem Bitcoin From Cashu Tokens
I had an idea to make a greeting card that paid a small amount of cashu to the recipient and wrote about it in this blog post. I thought about selling them, but it was clunky and required too much anaolog cutting and pasting to seriously consider selling for sats. cutting and pasting without shortcuts sucks and glue is not as fun for anyone passed the age of eating it. Then it dawned on my natural intelligence…We could use AI to build an app that easily creates the card for me. No need to fiddle with FOSS QR Code making programs, screenshots, glue and other stuff. So I re-wrote the blog as an AI prompt. I used Claude Opus 4.6 on [shakespeare.diy](https://shakespeare.diy/) if you must know.
Opus is bad-ass. We, Opus and I, created a program that uses some of BotPopArt’s art to make a birthday card that pays between 1-500 sats using the Cashu protocol. It could use some more variety, but I want it to be AI slop free. Users can also add their own, hand-drawn art. We suppose you could add AI slop art too, but no mother on Mother’s Day will ever exlaim, “Thanks for the card. I’m so proud of your AI prompting skills!”
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Simply copy and paste the cashu token into the field to create your own card.
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Click The print button
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Put it together
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You might need a little glue. One of the images might be upside down. It’s not perfect yet… But it works. That’s amazing. Many people say Cashu doesn’t solve a problem, but most of those people are bitcoin experts. Bitcoin experts run their own nodes. Bitcoin experts open lightning channels. Bitcoin experts who read and write bitcoin code and understand digital signatures as well as anyone working for the NSA don’t need Cashu. Bitcoin experts are some of my favorite people in the world, but they don’t need Cashu. Cashu makes sense for the people at Bitcoin Conferences who would rather talk to a dude wearing a sharkskin suit about shitcoins than someone building cool stuff in the open source room. They drool at the sight of green candles and panic when red candles haunt them like Specter haunting the modern world.
Candlewatchers don’t typically hold their own keys. They dont even consider bitcion moiney. It’s “Crypto” like a meme coin without the social proof celebrities like YouTube and Reality Political TV stars use to build a trusted brand around. That dude is wearing a suit. That dude is an expert at firing people. People don’t trust Crypto because they don’t understand cryptography, cybersecurity or the anatomy of a computer. Next time you’re hanging out with a normie, ask her, “have you ever heard of peer-to-peer electronic cash?” Make sure this is not someone you plan on ever asking out on a date unless you have some strange rejection fetish but you get the idea. Ain’t nobody outside of the nerdiest room in a bitcoin conference know what the hell that means. Of course Guy Swann knows what peer-to-peer electronic cash is, but the average person you meet at a party has no idea what the phrase per-to-peer electronic cash means.
People who are not bitcoin experts still know what a piece of paper backed by gold or military promises means. Like it or not, they know what a dolar-dollar bill is. Their grandparents gave these bills to them. They recieved cards witha pocket holding a piece of green cotton with Andrew Jackson’s face. Andrew Jackson was a president so he must be trustworthy. Andrew Jacksoin was backed by democracy, that thing we call the “Republic four whiches stand.” They don’t trust bitcoin because it is backed by an anonymous dude not Andrew Jackson or some other American President. You can’t convince them to buy bitcoin with dollars in a fiat bank account if you expect them to use bitcoin instead of dollars.
You make them a card instead. Paste the cashu token into a websitem add a few pictures, and make the greeting card printer go brrrrrr.
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Do it at https://cashu-cards.shakespeare.wtf/
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