This 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.
Though this also shows the limitations of ecash. If that were a 127sat token, it'd be damn near impossible to scan. https://image.nostr.build/e33e0bbba9f8bea5af15e57d2b7e781759a34bc31a21dc8f952eabc109e52cb6.jpg
I'm using cashu.me which supports animated QR. We need to ask nostr:nprofile1qqstxwlea9ah3u6kjjszu6a7lrnhqkfh8eptp2z6v0e9558tlkkl2rgpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59u4kl3vp to adopt it pls ser it's trivial to implement.
Nice. Will look into this too. 👀
why is that?
It's 1 sat less than a power of 2 which is always nifty
Thanks for the sats Satoshi👍 Scanning on minibits worked fine.
Switch QR to the new v4 format, makes QRs much more readable. It's the default on latest Minibits.
That was a v4 format QR code.
Tap "New format" at the bottom for a v4. Should be in avg 30% more efficient.
This is hilarious since calle wants to charge 1 sat on every ecash tx. So 128 sats becomes 127!
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This reminds me of Piso wifi.
damn, I had to read it several times to get it, and even when you are right, that is the exact reason why is not popular, it is too complex to get even for Bitcoiners 🤝
Scratching the surface. #SovEng
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Clever as the engineering undoubtedly is, I'm not sure the goal is worthwhile.
I remember the 1990s when access to *dial-up* net access was metered by the MB or by the minute. It took a lot of work to replace that with all-you-can-eat broadband. Going back to metered access seems like regression to me, not progress.
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