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Satlantis Emerges as Bitcoin-Native Alternative to Luma for Real-World Events
Built on Bitcoin’s ethos and technology, Satlantis is an event organizing platform designed for “real-world maxxing”, a Gen Z term for enjoying the real world with real people.
As AI fills social media, confusing and distorting whatever signal it once had, an exodus to real-world experiences has begun to take place. Some statistics show that social media usage peaked in 2022, a saturation induced by the COVID lockdowns that accelerated digital adoption of everything, only to remove its shine. Being online all the time is now ‘passé’.
Jordi Llonch, Head of Growth at Satlantis, told Bitcoin Magazine in an exclusive interview that the app is “a tool to promote commerce in real life,” adding that “AI has broken the internet, people are tired of online everything, people want events in real life.”
This emerging trend back to analogue social dynamics — if you will — won’t necessarily be led by Luddites; on the contrary, new social media tools and business models are emerging to facilitate quality time offline, rather than time online. Satlantis is just that, a tool that lets users discover, follow, and create real-world events of all kinds, bringing all the tools they need to access, market, and host events under one roof.
Satlantis serves as a Bitcoin-only alternative to Luma, the popular event page that is rumored to have an exclusive agreement with the Solana blockchain. You will find no memecoins on Satlantis; its goal is not to keep you online hooked on the roulette wheel of gamification. It’s the opposite, to get you out there in the real world, gathering with real people and seeding the use of sound money while you are at it.
Create, Host, Follow, and Share Events
Satlantis lets you create and customize events, which you can share with a permanent link. You can include images, identify the venue, sell tickets to attendees or host them for free.
Hosts can create their own organization of personal Calendars, which their friends and fans can follow for future events. Satlantis also comes with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool kit. Hosts can upload a CSV file with names, emails, and nostr pubs, and mass notify their contacts, friends, and followers about future events. Hosts can also target attendees of previous events, or fans who have confirmed attendance or are on the fence. Emails are sent from the Satlantis domain, avoiding spam filters.
Satlantis is deeply integrated with Nostr, a Bitcoin native social network protocol that lets users own their data, such as followers and posts, and migrate it across sites, rather than be locked into a specific social media platform. As such, when hosts create a calendar to list future events, users automatically follow their nostr accounts, creating online connections that last and can be migrated to other Bitcoin social apps like Primal. Users can log in with their existing Nostr keys or with their Google, Apple, or other email accounts.
Sell Tickets in Bitcoin and Fiat
Users can host events for free or sell tickets for bitcoin and local fiat currencies. A one click stripe integration solves the fiat payments problem, unlocking events like Bitcoin conferences that draw in new users. While the Bitcoin integration supports active communities and Bitcoin meetups.
As a Bitcoin native app, every user of Satlantis has a bitcoin wallet built into their account by default, unlocking a wide range of possibilities. For example, hosts can enable fiat payment for tickets, but offer 20% of the value back in sats to attendees.
Hosts can manage ticket types, to offer VIP experiences, and of course, send targeted messages to specific groups of attendees via the CRM.
The Satlantis mobile app has a fully featured Bitcoin wallet that lets users send and receive sats, track ticket purchases to events, and payments earned from hosting them.
Every venue also gets a Bitcoin wallet, which attendees can tip, creating an incentive for venue owners to join the Bitcoin economy by creating a Satlantis account and claiming their Bitcoin tips. A sophisticated system is in active development to make sure only the owners of a venue can claim such wallets, likely via integration with Google Maps.
The Satlantis wallet is fully custodial and only supports Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and gives every user a Lightning URL address, such as [email protected]. This design decision is highly intentional.1 Satlantis puts a hard cap of 1 million satoshis per account, forcing users to withdraw to their own wallets, minimizing the amount of value held by the platform in custody, but also keeping transaction speeds high and the user experience quick and snappy. Users can withdraw bitcoin to their wallets at any time with no questions asked.
Satlantis only charges 2% for ticket sales processing, as opposed to competitors that can charge up to 10%, though Stripe adds another 2.9% on top for fiat payments.
Llonch will be hosting a quick webinar to showcase the full capabilities of Satlantis soon, which might be a good excuse to try out the app.
This post Satlantis Emerges as Bitcoin-Native Alternative to Luma for Real-World Events first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Juan Galt.
