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For independent creators

The encrypted paywall no platform can ban, no bank can block.

No subscriptions. Your buyers pay per video or per channel, and get access for as long as you decide.

Your own vault, on Lightning. Settled money is yours — no one can freeze it or claw it back. Free until you're profitable.

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AES-256 Encryption
0 Buyer Data Required
0 Chargebacks
<1s Unlock Time
See It Live

Don't Trust Us. Pay Us a Cent.

PrivaPaid Stream is running right now. Browse real content, pay one cent from any Lightning wallet, and watch it decrypt in your browser. This is the real product, not a mockup.

PrivaPaid streaming demo: a video unlocked and playing on-page after a Lightning payment — no subscription, decryption happens in the browser, with likes and comments from viewers who paid to watch
Open the Live Demo

Running live on Railway right now — the same one-click deploy you'll use to launch yours.

No testimonials yet — we're early. Just a vault you can test with real money in the next 60 seconds.

What Your Buyers Experience

No Account. No Checkout Redirect. No Trace.

From browsing to unlocked content in under a minute. Here's the exact flow your buyers walk through — and the dashboard you run behind it.

Content Storefront

Content Storefront

The buyer-facing experience. Channels, levels, and content — organized and ready to unlock. No account required to browse or buy.

Media Page

Media Page

The individual content view. Buyers see the content preview, pay to unlock with Lightning, and access decrypts instantly in the browser.

Lightning Payment

Lightning Payment

The payment modal. Scan the QR code or tap Open Wallet — payment confirms in under a second and content decrypts instantly.

Creator Dashboard

Creator Dashboard

The admin panel where creators manage products, pricing, and access duration. Full control over your encrypted content catalog.

For Creators

Your content. Your income. No platform can switch them off.

Frozen accounts, sudden policy changes, payouts held for weeks — you've seen what platforms can do. PrivaPaid runs on your own setup, so no one can freeze your money or take your audience. You can be live today.

See How It Works

Manage multiple creators? See the agency model

Three Steps to Go Live
1

Set Up Alby Hub Cloud

Your Lightning wallet — nobody can freeze it.

2

Open a SatsRail Account

Your payment rail. Two minutes to set up.

3

Deploy PrivaPaid Stream

One click. Your vault goes live.

Get Started

The live demo above runs on this exact one-click deploy — what you see is what you launch.

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What Creators Actually Keep

On $5,000 monthly revenue — here's what you take home.

Platforms
$4,000
20% cut
Processors
$4,400
~12% fee
PrivaPaid
$4,990
$10/mo plan
A creator doing $50K/month pays a $100/mo plan — not $10,000 in platform fees. That's about $118,000/year back in your pocket.

Free under $500/mo in sales. After that, a flat monthly plan from $10/mo — never a percentage of what you earn.

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Source Available

Free. Source-Available. Yours to Deploy.

PrivaPaid is fully source-available under the FSL-1.1-ALv2 license. Clone the repo, deploy with Docker or Vercel, and start accepting encrypted payments in minutes. No vendor lock-in. No permission needed.

Built with Next.js 16, PostgreSQL, and the SatsRail API. White-label ready, fully customizable, and designed for creators who want complete control.

View on GitHub
Peer-to-peer encrypted content delivery between creator and buyer
# Clone & run in 2 minutes
$ git clone https://github.com/SatsRail/privapaid.git
$ cd privapaid
$ cp .env.example .env.local
$ docker compose up
# That's it. Open http://localhost:3000
FSL-1.1-ALv2 TypeScript Next.js 16 Docker Ready
Common Questions

Everything You Need to Know

PrivaPaid is an encrypted vault for digital content. Creators lock their content with AES-256-GCM encryption and sell access via Bitcoin Lightning payments. Buyers pay and decrypt the content instantly in their browser — no account, no identity, no custodian in the middle.

Your content is the lock — encrypted with military-grade AES-256-GCM and embedded on your page. When a buyer pays via Lightning, SatsRail (the non-custodial payment rail) delivers the decryption key. The buyer's browser uses this key to unlock the content instantly. The key is destroyed after use.

SatsRail is the non-custodial Bitcoin Lightning payment infrastructure that powers PrivaPaid. It processes the payment, holds the decryption key, and releases it only after confirmed payment. SatsRail never touches your content or your funds — it only delivers the key.

No. Buyers pay with any Bitcoin Lightning wallet — no account, no email, no credit card, no personal information required. The payment is the only interaction needed.

PrivaPaid is source-available under the FSL-1.1-ALv2 license. You can self-host it for free, fork it, modify it, and run it for clients. There are no per-sale platform fees, no percentage cuts, and no chargebacks. A managed hosting plan is also available for creators who prefer not to self-host.

Any digital content — text, images, audio, video, PDFs, code, datasets, or any file. If it's digital, you can lock it in a PrivaPaid vault.

Honest numbers: a SatsRail account takes about two minutes. Setting up your own Lightning wallet (Alby Hub) takes around 15 minutes, plus a one-time on-chain fee of roughly $8 to open your payment channel. Deploying PrivaPaid Stream on Railway takes a few minutes more. Budget an afternoon the first time — and if you get stuck, independent Node Stewards will help you for free.

Yes — and that's real friction if your audience has never touched it. Buyers pay from any Bitcoin Lightning wallet; millions of people already hold Bitcoin on exchanges with Lightning support and can pay in seconds. PrivaPaid works best as a direct, private sales channel alongside whatever you already use — not as a forced replacement for your card-paying audience.

Here's exactly what the rail underneath can and can't do. SatsRail can generate invoices, confirm payments, deliver decryption keys — and, like any provider, suspend service under its published acceptable-use policy. It can't hold your money, see your content, or identify your buyers. Even a suspension can only stop future sales — money already settled sits in your own wallet, beyond anyone's reach, including ours.

The software is free to self-host. The payment rail is free until $500/month in sales, then flat plans from $10/month — never a percentage of what you earn. A hosted Lightning wallet (Alby Hub Cloud) runs about $10/month, and buyers pay tiny Lightning routing fees, typically a fraction of a cent. No per-sale fees, no chargebacks, no hidden cuts.

An Encrypted Vault. Not a Platform.

Your content, encrypted with AES-256. Your buyer pays via Lightning. The content decrypts in their browser. No server ever sees it.

AES-256 Encryption
0 Buyer Data Required
0% Transaction Fees — Just a Flat Plan
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Not ready yet? Request early access and we'll help you get set up