But why do you have to use a shitcoin for this? Why can't you use Tollgate?
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You're right. I'd rather use Tollgate every day.
But Helium has loads of devices out in the wild, and agreements with mobile carriers. Not to mention a UX that abstracts all of this from everyone.
That level of biz dev is providing more value (today) than cashu/tollgate is.
We can get there. But useful-now is better than perfect-someday 99% of the time.
Yeah, I did not do anything, but these are apparently out there.
I was into helium for a while before I saw the light 😂
Sometimes we have to build the world that we want, and that includes not using shitcoins and making excuses for using them. I'm more principled in some areas than others and I do a lot things that some might consider dumb out of principle. I would not use a carrier that supports Helium. I would not connect to a Helium WiFi network. Perhaps in an emergency, but that would be it.
I’m not. The owner of the business does, my phone connected automatically.
I’m not paying for it. But the business owner is getting paid in Helium tokens.
Also I don’t know what is Tollgate?
Minus the connecting automatically via agreements with your carrier, it's similar for the merchant, except they get paid in bitcoin.
Yeah I looked it up after you mentioned it.
I think the connecting automatically part is the magical thing though.
Internet is free these days, a toll gate is just an unnecessary friction point.
Tollgate will only work if the AP is at a remote location with no other services around it.
Still pretty cool concept. Thanks. TIL.