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Grant b95b47e0d5 v0.2.0:7 — align package copy with website positioning
The Start9 registry card was still showing "Keysat — self-hosted
Bitcoin-paid software license server" while keysat.xyz now leads
with "Bitcoin-native self-hosted licensing service for software
creators." Operators landing on the registry from the marketing
site got a jarring tagline mismatch.

Aligned everywhere the old copy was hardcoded:

- startos/manifest/i18n.ts (short + long descriptions — these
  drive the registry card)
- assets/ABOUT.md (in-StartOS About panel)
- README.md (root + licensing-service/)
- licensing-service/Cargo.toml description

Long description also picked up two updates that should have
landed when the features did but never made it into the marketing
copy:
- Zaprite mention (Bitcoin + cards) alongside BTCPay
- Recurring subscriptions + in-place tier upgrades

Pure copy change. No code, no behavior, no schema. Republishing as
:7 because the registry card text lives inside the .s9pk and
won't refresh on operators' boxes without a version bump.
2026-05-09 19:10:26 -05:00

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# About Keysat
**Keysat** is a Bitcoin-native, self-hosted licensing service for software creators: every operator runs their own instance on their own hardware, so there is no central authority, no shared database, and no lock-in. You own the signing key, the customer records, and the payment rails.
After installing:
1. Click **Connect BTCPay** once to authorize the daemon against your BTCPay Server (one-click — nothing to copy and paste).
2. Click **Create product** for each thing you want to sell.
3. Optionally click **Create policy** to set per-product defaults (duration, grace period, entitlements, seat cap, trial flag) — a policy slugged `default` is used by the public purchase flow.
4. Share your Keysat URL with buyers. They call `POST /v1/purchase`, pay via BTCPay, and Keysat issues an Ed25519-signed license key your software can verify offline.
The same in-dashboard action buttons cover license issuance (for comps, press, trials), suspension / unsuspension, revocation, machine management, outbound webhook subscriptions, and an audit log viewer. Full developer docs live in the upstream repository.