title: "OrangeCat: A Place to Share, Support, and Get Paid (with Bitcoin)" excerpt: "OrangeCat brings ideas, products, services, causes, and content together with Bitcoin payments, threaded conversations, and AI help—so value and knowledge can flow freely." date: "2025-12-02" tags: ["Vision", "Bitcoin", "Social", "Commerce", "Causes", "AI"] featured: true author: "OrangeCat Team" published: true
OrangeCat: A Place to Share, Support, and Get Paid (with Bitcoin)
We’re building OrangeCat so people, groups, and communities can share ideas, sell goods, offer services, publish content, run projects and causes, request or give loans, and help one another—with Bitcoin—without losing the conversation along the way. It also makes it easy to freely and voluntarily help others, complementing existing welfare and social systems.
Why This Matters
Ideas, needs, and offers get lost in scattered chats. Supporters and customers struggle to know what’s real. Getting paid or funded across borders is messy. OrangeCat puts sharing, trust, and payments in one place.
What OrangeCat Is
- Bitcoin built-in: Get paid or receive donations with Bitcoin or Lightning—fast, global, and transparent.
- Threads that keep context: X-style conversations where ideas don’t disappear.
- Homes for your work and help: Pages for projects, causes, products, services, content channels, and loans—with updates and progress.
- Discovery without the mess: Posts can show on personal and project pages; categories and featured spots help people find you.
- Keep everyone in the loop: Updates, progress, and messaging keep supporters, customers, and teammates aligned.
- AI “cat” helper: Suggests connections, summarizes threads, drafts updates, and points people to what matters.
- Voluntary social support: A simple way to share resources—education, healthcare help, community aid—alongside formal systems.
How It Works (simple flow)
- Share an idea, product, service, cause, loan request, or post.
- It gains interest in a thread and on its own page.
- People support, buy, or donate with Bitcoin/Lightning.
- You post updates; everyone sees progress.
- Messaging and threads keep the conversation moving.
Who It Helps
- Makers and organizers: Launch projects or causes and keep supporters updated.
- Sellers and service providers: Sell goods or offer services, paid directly in Bitcoin/Lightning.
- Creators: Run a channel, share content, and earn support.
- Lenders/borrowers (loans): Request or provide short-term Bitcoin loans with clear terms and updates.
- Supporters and customers: Back or buy directly, with clear updates and no guesswork.
- People retooling in the AI era: Turn experience into workshops, services, or content for a global audience.
- Communities and neighbors: Voluntarily share resources for education, healthcare, and helping those less fortunate.
Why Bitcoin
Borderless, fast, and transparent. Every payment or donation is clear.
Why Threads
They keep the story together: conversation → page → support/payment → updates. Ideas don’t get buried.
AI’s Job (your helpful cat)
- Finds related people, posts, and projects.
- Summarizes long threads so newcomers can catch up.
- Drafts replies and updates in your voice.
- Guides supporters to the right thing to fund, buy, or help.
Quick Examples (one per product type)
- Selling goods: A craft seller posts new releases; buyers pay via Lightning; updates show shipped orders and stock.
- Offering services: A designer offers brand audits; clients pay in Bitcoin; follow-up notes and deliverables arrive via updates.
- Project (build/launch): A team building an open-source tool shares progress; backers fund with BTC; milestones and releases post in-thread.
- Cause (community/charity): A local food program shares needs; donations arrive over Lightning; weekly updates show meals served and funds remaining.
- Loan: A shop owner requests a short-term Bitcoin loan for inventory; lenders see clear repayment terms and get paid back on-chain with status updates.
- Channel (content): A creator runs tutorials; supporters tip in sats; new drops and schedules are posted in threads so fans don’t miss them.
- Voluntary social support: A community teacher raises Bitcoin to buy tablets for students; donors see receipts and learning outcomes in updates.
OrangeCat is where ideas, people, products, services, content, and Bitcoin meet—so value and knowledge can flow freely, and conversations become real support.