If you can get a mesh net up and LN async payments or something like greenlight or ecash boy then you've got quite the product on your hands to take it through some of the toughest places to get money and transact freely and cheaply
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Great write up. I could see something like this working at a marketplace (or major conference with terrible reception). I don't think total offline would work well at all, some people will need to be online. But this could be on some of the merchants with a data plan. The ones with internet could be the hub(s) and the users and other merchants could have their channels with the hub(s). Then routing could take place.
It's probably only worth it if users at the end of the day could go home or get internet access later to verify the chain and channel state. Otherwise the hassle would be too much, it might as well be custodial.
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Super cool concept & definitely deserves more attention.
Would be a great thing to demo at a Hackathon, so everyone need not be online to zap one another.
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Agree. This is a wonderful thing. It will significantly expand the possibilities of payment and bring the network of lightning to the first place.
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Really interesting… certainly within closed local environments. Not sure on the offline scalability (ie a widespread disaster relief situation / multi-national refugee camp etc) but will watch with interest.
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Thanks for this info. Mesh Network is something that need our attention to give an alternative to the internet access.
There are 3 projects I found that use Mesh:
goTenna Mesh devices. Used for military tatics... but normal people can buy as well. https://gotennapro.com/
Samourai Wallet Bitcoin wallet with mesh support provided by goTenna https://samouraiwallet.com/offline
Linxdot (made by the Linux mobile company https://www.fxtec.com/) Not exactly mesh, but they offer LoRaWAN and 5G hotspots designed for decentralised wireless infrastructure (long-fi). You can mine token Helium (Solana blockchain) while you cover your region (town according to them) with long-fi.
https://www.linxdot.com/
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Thanks!!!!!
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Once Fedimint and ecash become more prevelant, offline payments can happen p2p using just the client devices.
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Wow... That's call Offline node
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I love stuff like this. Very cool concept
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