Ring-Ring®

Every ride and stride is a gift

People already move every day. They walk to the station, cycle to work, take the long way home. Ring-Ring values that. For more than ten years we have rewarded walking and cycling: between 2015 and 2024, 14,756 people rode 5.5 million rides with Ring-Ring, and 8,226 people walked 1.2 million walks.

Bitcoin and nostr in disguise

Ring-Ring looks like a walking and cycling app, and that is the point. Every ride and stride is valued in Gifts (1 per km riding, 2 per km striding) and in sats. Gifts are exchanged at local gift partners, 100 Gifts for a gift in return. Sats land in the rider’s own self-custodial Lightning wallet. Every rider has their own Nostr key, signs their badges and owns them, and can sign in with a Nostr signer. People start where they are and grow into bitcoin and Nostr at their own pace. Get off zero.

i + i + i = WE

A gift for your health, your city, your local economy and the world. Riders and Striders get healthier and stack sats. Local shops welcome new customers. Cities get open, signed data on how people walk and cycle: every figure stands for at least ten people, published on Nostr under CC0. 17,524 messages already make the Netherlands readable as one great metropolis, on our own relay and on relay.primal.net.

An open rulebook, for every app

The rules behind the data live in an open protocol, civic-ride-stride. Any app can publish beside us, under its own key and source id. One map reads them all, each source visible. The rules are open on GitHub (civic-ride-stride/protocol); the data they govern is signed and published on Nostr.

Built to exist forever

Ring-Ring is steward-owned. Ownership is earned by walking and cycling: after 365 days of membership and 1,825 Gifts, a member becomes a steward, with a vote and an equal share of 10% of the profit. The mission stays at the centre, for good.

What comes next

Ring-Ring on Zapstore, signing in to bitcoin services with your Ring-Ring wallet, governments putting their plans on the open map, and the first cities beyond the Netherlands, starting small with ten people on a street. Bitcoiners lead by example. Back us, and ride and stride with us.

Why there is a door

Ring-Ring is steward-owned and paid for by its members. That keeps it answerable to Riders and Striders and to the cities their rides map. In the app stores, membership is €3.99 a month, €39.99 a year, or once for life. The Zapstore edition will make it lifetime, once, in sats: one Lightning payment. And membership is where ownership starts: a year of membership and 1,825 Gifts make you a steward.

The ecosystem

Riders and Striders ride and walk, and grow into bitcoin. Ring-Ring is accepted on Google Play; the iPhone app follows after Apple’s review.

Gift partners welcome them: a local shop offers a gift of its own choosing for 100 Gifts. Five questions, about three minutes: portal.ring-ring.nu/en/gift-partner

Employers put their blue pin on the map and value walking and cycling, with one code for the whole organisation: portal.ring-ring.nu/en/employer

Cities and researchers read the open data: portal.ring-ring.nu/en/open-data

Everyone who takes part, on one map: portal.ring-ring.nu/en/map

Founding members: 2,100 Founding numbers, and each one goes out once: portal.ring-ring.nu/en/founding