Satlantis Emerges As Bitcoin-Native Alternative To Luma For Real-World Events
Built on the ethics and technology of Bitcoin, Satlantis is an event planning platform designed for “real-world maxxing”, Gen Z’s term for enjoying the real world with real people.
As AI fills social media, obfuscating and distorting any signal it once had, a migration of real-world experiences has begun to take place. Some statistics show that the use of social media will increase significantly in 2022, the saturation caused by the closure of the COVID that hastened the adoption of everything digitally, to remove its light. Being online all the time is now ‘passing’.
Jordi Llonch, Head of Growth at Satlantis, told Bitcoin Magazine in an exclusive interview that the app is “a tool to promote trading in real life,” adding that “AI has broken the internet, people are tired of everything online, people want events in real life.”
This emerging trend returns to analogue social dynamics – if you will – not necessarily led by Luddites; on the contrary, new social media tools and business models are emerging to facilitate offline time, rather than online time. Satlantis is just that, a tool that allows users to find, track, and create real-world events of all kinds, bringing all the tools they need to reach, market, and host events under one roof.
Satlantis serves as a Bitcoin-only alternative to Luma, a popular event page that is said to have an exclusive agreement with the Solana blockchain. You won’t get memecoins from Satlantis; its goal is not to keep you connected to the internet on the roulette wheel of gamification. It’s the opposite, getting you out there in the real world, meeting real people and seeding some buzz while you’re at it.
Create, Search, Track, and Share Events
Satlantis allows you to create and customize events, which you can share with a permanent link. You can post photos, identify the venue, sell tickets to attendees or host them for free.
Hosts can create their own personal calendar organization, which their friends and followers can follow for future events. Satlantis comes with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) toolkit. 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 from past events, or fans who have confirmed attendance or are on the phone. Emails are sent from the Satlantis domain, avoiding spam filters.
Satlantis is deeply integrated with Nostr, a native Bitcoin social network protocol that allows users to own their data, such as followers and posts, and move it across sites, rather than being confined to a specific social media platform. Thus, when hosts create a calendar to record future events, users automatically follow their nostr accounts, creating a long-lasting online connection that can be moved to other public Bitcoin applications such as Primal. Users can log in with their existing Nostr keys or with 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 currency. One-click online integration solves the problem of fiat payments, opening up events like Bitcoin conferences that attract new users. While Bitcoin integration supports active communities and Bitcoin meetups.
As a traditional Bitcoin application, every Satlantis user has a bitcoin wallet built into his account by default, opening up many possibilities. For example, hosts can enable fiat payment for tickets, but give 20% of the price back in sats to attendees.
Hosts can manage ticket types, to provide a VIP experience, and of course, send targeted messages to specific groups of attendees through CRM.
The Satlantis mobile app has a fully featured Bitcoin wallet that allows users to send and receive sats, track event ticket purchases, and host payments.
Every site also receives a Bitcoin wallet, which attendees can tip, which encourages site owners to join the Bitcoin economy by creating a Satlantis account and claim their Bitcoin tips. A complex system is still being developed to ensure that only property owners can claim such bags, most likely through integration with Google Maps.
The Satlantis wallet is fully secured and supports only the Bitcoin Lightning Network and provides every user with a lightning URL address, such as Satoshi@satlantis.io. This design decision is very targeted.1 Satlantis puts 1 million satoshi in each account, which forces users to withdraw from their wallets, reducing the amount of money kept by the platform in stock, but also keeps the transaction speed high and the user experience faster and faster. Users can withdraw bitcoin from their wallets at any time with no questions asked.
Satlantis only charges 2% for processing ticket sales, unlike competitors who can charge up to 10%, although Stripe adds another 2.9% on top of fiat fees.
Llonch will be hosting a quick webinar to showcase the full capabilities of Satlantis soon, which would be a great excuse to try out the app.
