Printed Tips

Small bearer notes you fund from your own wallet and give away — as a link, or printed on paper. Whoever holds the note owns what is on it, and nobody custodies it in between, not even Parahub. A note nobody claims comes back to you by itself.

How it works

  1. 1Create a batch: how many notes, how many sats on each, how long before unclaimed ones return, and a greeting to print on them.
  2. 2Each note's secret is generated in your browser and funded from your wallet — one payment per note. The server is never told a batch exists.
  3. 3Give it away: copy the note's link and send it however you like, or print the sheet — nine notes on an A4 page, with cut lines.
  4. 4The holder opens the link (or scans the QR from the paper) and cashes out to any Lightning, Spark, or Bitcoin address — or simply keeps it.
Unclaimed notes return
Every note carries an expiry you choose. If nobody claims it, the money comes back to your wallet on its own — nothing on our side has to stay alive for that to happen.
Nobody in the middle
There is no house wallet holding tips until someone redeems them. The money sits in the note itself from the moment you fund it.
Cashes out anywhere
A Lightning invoice, a Lightning address, a Spark address, or an on-chain Bitcoin address — the holder decides where it goes. Small notes travel cheapest over Lightning.
No account, no address
The person you give a note to needs no Parahub account and no wallet of their own — so you can pay someone who has nothing to send you yet.

It is a bearer note — treat it like cash

Whoever can read the code can claim it, on paper or in a link. That is what makes a note giftable, and it means a stack of them deserves the same care as banknotes. Send each link to one person only: the first to open it takes the money. And you cannot take a note back once given — until it expires, it is genuinely the holder’s.

Where this comes from

Printable bitcoin tips are not a new idea here. From 2013 to 2024 the same thing ran at bctip.org, by the same author — except that version had to keep your coins in its own wallet until somebody redeemed them. This one never holds them at all.

bctip.org

Print your own sheet: the notes are funded from your wallet, and whatever nobody claims comes back to you.

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