Connecting Minibits to Stacker.News via NWC

So, I just spent about half an hour attempting to connect my Minibits ecash wallet to Stacker.News using NWC. As I found a way to make it work, I figured I'd make a post so hopefully in the future someone can save a little time.

When you create a NWC string in Minibits, it doesn't differentiate between connections for sending payments, and connections for receiving them. I attempted to just paste the same connection string in both fields with no luck, as well as attempting to generate a new connection string for use in the "receive" field. This also was unsuccessful.

The Workaround:

The solution I found is to just paste the connection string from Minibits in the "for sending" field and save. Once this is done, go back to the wallet connection selection page, and select lightning address for receiving payments. Enter your @minibits.cash address into the field and save.

This worked for me, I am now able to send and receive zaps to my Minibits wallet from Stacker.News.

Things could change in the future, if they do I will try my best to report back on any new info I have regarding this.

Woof!

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/732888