Semisol 👨💻 on Nostr: the problem is that you can’t mint ecash without being connected to the internet, ...
the problem is that you can’t mint ecash without being connected to the internet, and you can’t connect to the internet without paying
also using ecash is utterly stupid for this as not everything supports it compared to LN, and you have to use a “preferred mint” etc and any mint conversion mechanism already uses, you guessed it, LN
also using ecash is utterly stupid for this as not everything supports it compared to LN, and you have to use a “preferred mint” etc and any mint conversion mechanism already uses, you guessed it, LN
quoting note1sld…lwj2This happened during a demo of Tollgate, a tool for OpenWRT routers which let's users pay for WiFi with sats-denominated ecash. Friend of mine connects his phone to the wifi hotspot and is shown a captive portal that says it wants ecash from a certain mint. Friend doesn't have ecash. But I do.
I whip out my phone and create a 100 sat token, show it to him as a QR code, which he copies and pastes into the captive portal. A few seconds later, he's online. 1 sat = 1 minute internet.
We're just scratching the surface of what's possible.