The Bitcoin Lightning paywall
for your own website.
Lock any content behind AES-256 encryption. Unlock it with a Lightning payment. One script tag — no platform, no processor, no buyer accounts, no chargebacks.
Payments settle to your own wallet in seconds. You keep ~99%.
A paywall with no middleman in it
A traditional paywall is a promise: a platform holds your content, takes the payment, keeps a cut, and pays you later — if its rules still allow it. A Lightning paywall is a mechanism: your content is encrypted on your page, and the buyer's payment is the key.
Encrypted in the page
Your content ships AES-256-GCM encrypted, embedded right in your HTML. Scrapers, bots, and view-source see ciphertext. How encrypted delivery works.
Paid with a QR code
The buyer scans a Lightning invoice with any wallet and pays in seconds. No signup, no email, no card form — nothing to abandon at checkout.
Decrypted in the browser
On payment confirmation, the content decrypts client-side and renders in place. The payment is the key. No servers deliver your files; nobody can revoke access to your revenue.
Why creators choose Lightning over credit cards
Credit card rails were built for department stores in the 1970s. Lightning was built for the internet — and for exactly the kind of small, frequent, private purchases content creators live on.
Keep ~99% of every sale
Platforms take 20%. Adult-friendly processors take 10–15%. PrivaPaid charges a flat subscription and zero transaction fees. See the fee math.
Zero chargebacks
Lightning payments are final on settlement. No issuing bank can claw back money you already earned — in categories where chargebacks run 5–7x average.
Micropayments that work
Card minimums make a $0.50 sale impossible. Lightning makes it profitable. Sell a single photo, one article, one song — price by the piece, the channel, or the hour.
Real buyer privacy
No name on a statement, no purchase history in a database waiting to leak. Privacy isn't a premium feature here — it's the default. Why that matters.
Built for creators who sell direct
If you make digital content and want to sell it from your own site — instead of renting an audience from a platform — a Lightning paywall fits.
Video & adult creators
Sell per clip or per channel without giving 20% to a platform — or your account's fate to a card network. Recently deplatformed? Start here.
Writers & journalists
Charge per article instead of demanding a subscription nobody finishes. Readers pay cents, you keep nearly all of it, and nobody tracks who read what.
Musicians, educators & podcasters
Sell tracks, courses, bonus episodes, or timed access to a feed — from your own page, with instant settlement and no platform between you and your fans.
See how it stacks up: PrivaPaid vs Patreon, Substack, Gumroad, and Stripe — or read Sell Content Direct. Keep 99%.
Lightning paywall FAQ
One script tag away from selling direct.
Your content, encrypted on your page. Your money, in your wallet, in seconds.