Super excited to learn more about meshtastic. Been trying to convince friends/family we need something like this. We live in FL and we got very lucky the past two hurricanes but it's not unreasonable to think cell service goes down too in a situation like that.  

 I would assume the same way people get paid now, meaning some type of contract that says pay me 50% now and I will complete work by date and then pay me rest. Obviously some people won't pay or won't write the article but that's the world of contract work. Maybe there's a cool way to do a Bitcoin Smart Contract in that scenario though.