11 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 24 Oct \ parent \ on: Why aren't you running a node yet? bitcoin
For Cubans only an Uncle Jim scenario is feasible.
So I suggest to have a fellow family member in Miami or something in US running a node for you as I described in my guides as uncle Jim, offering multiple accounts for you.
Done. Case closed.
Or just use Blink.
I use Blink. Don't think it's easy from Cuba, but it can be done.
To register you must have a phone number that is not from Cuba, they don't accept it because of the StableSat issue. What do we do? VPN to download and run the wallet, when it asks for the phone number, SMSPOOL, paid with SATs, which is good, 4 people can benefit from one payment. Then the registration is done and then we associate an email, we delete the number and that's it. We do the work and get the results. PoW.
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Can people in Cuba use Phoenix or Breez? And I'm not talking about app store access, but would it work on a low bandwidth connection?
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Breez is using neutrino, so no, not good for high ping. Bandwidth it doesn't matter, but response time, ping. Not speed, not volume, but time response.
Phoenix, maybe yes, because is using Electrum sync so it could work better. But is not so cheap.
More options here:
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PHOENIX is a self-custody solution for Cubans. Only on the other side is ACINQ, so we already know what it means. I was asking for the community group that has a node, even if it is not complete, so they can tell me approximately something. I don't know if it can be done using mobile data. Here a data plan costs 2287 SATs, and that is 8 Gb of data. I don't know if with that you can run a node even if it is very limited.
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Then I don't know what to say more. Your situation is really bad and complicated.
maybe you could start a local ecash mint and do something like this that doesn't even require internet.
Source here - by Calle
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