A truly closed loop economy but it is started with actual collateral..all using magic internet monies :)

Ya, that would be awesome to see in the wild.  I think fedi can work the same way, can be offline and still process payments for users of the mint.

BeeRye

lightning

⚡ MeshLightning - payments over Bluetooth mesh when internet fails

supratic

> local fedi or cashu mint that could swap tokens over bluetooth + LoRa that you could then cash out from when connection with broader internet is achieved is probably the most realistic.

Would be interesting to know if a cashu mint is operating exclusively in a close local mesh network, where's the need for it to connect to the internet? For example, let's say a mint start with 1M sats budget, go offline (from the internet), but still accessible in the mesh network from the ecash wallets. Ecash tokens can be generated and redeemed with no issue. The wallets only need to communicate with the cashu mint, not with the lightning node attached to it. Not sure if the same apply to fedirations.