📍In areas without internet or banking access, we use solutions that meet local needs, like those built on the Cashu protocol.

💡With this tech, offline transactions are possible, like this child buying a donut with SATs at an onboarded shop. 🍩⚡️nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsfmrzrk nostr:nprofile1qqsyh34ucvrjxn79ets5t9ll4k244p54nx6tdmw596tzd4nj6aqsylqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7yuv9zj

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If you want to get really technical (for all the Bitcoin aficionados out there), you could go to an area with internet, print a bunch of paper wallets in an air-gapped environment, send an exact amount of sats to each paper wallet, and then just use them like Federal Reserve Notes.

Ifitambua...is this Zambia?

How does eCash solve the double-spending problem in an offline environment? I'm not comfortable just trusting the payer.

It doesn’t, you need to trust the person sending it to you

there are some ways around it, but at certain point a connection is required for at least one party

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You redeem with the mint (internet) as soon as you’re able as the receiver.

if you're the merchant and have Internet, you don't need to trust anyone. the payer can remain offline.

generally, one party having internet is enough to prevent double spending

also this is a surprisingly common situation throughout the world

merchant has internet, customer does not

yes, merchant usually doesn't move, customer does!

what about the traveling salesman 👳

His customers are hopefully in there own homes and offices 😂

There isn't a way for an offline sender to lock ecash to an offline receivers public key, right? (assuming sender has the exact tokens denominations needed)

one of them has to be online

the opposite could also exist, tho probably less common:

vending machine (offline) - customer mobile (online)

in that case, customer/sender can create offline verifiable tokens

This was a specific design goal for my Bitcoin Deposits proposal. Always-online vault pays an invoice based on onion message for the invoice and max fee signed by the deposit private key. Potentially a single NFC tap by an offline customer

This is going to take off unbelievably in Africa, we haven't seen anything yet.

You can have ecash in any currency, not just sats, right?

Nice one.

The fact that they use an old math notebook for a napkin is crazy!🍯🦡Donut>math

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Yes!!