calvadev⚡️ on Nostr: Was able to get one of the routers up and running during btcplusplus, and after some ...

Was able to get one of the routers up and running during btcplusplus (nprofile…5flv), and after some initial troubleshooting, it worked great! It's pretty magical seeing it in action.

You can set one up with the following repo:

https://github.com/OpenTollGate/TollGateNostrToolKit

H/t to Chandran (nprofile…s4x8) for his work on the project; forwarding any zaps on this note to him.

If you're in Berlin, you can also purchase a router to run the TollGate software directly from him via shopstr (nprofile…0uz8):

https://shopstr.store/listing/d2c13f066fe04022f06bcd67debc27d73b915be9e19d3c879bb34cb3a15809a3

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One amazing thing I learned about (out of many) at the ecash conference

A router for sharing internet

Someone from India, living in a place with a lot of internet access problems, built a set-up where people can buy internet without having any internet in the first place. 1 sat per minute

He built a captive portal that you log into and the page says — I take ecash from this one mint, get ecash from there and paste it into this text box — you paste it in, hit enter, and you’re online

You’ve made an offline payment and voila, you're now online

There are many exciting Bitcoin developments happening but it's becoming more clear that ecash is a wholly different, complementary technology that does different things, including many things that Bitcoin can't do no matter how many upgrades it gets