I could be wrong but I’d reckon it helps with countries or places in countries that doesn’t have proper wifi and dependent on that mobile towers and their 2-5km mobile transmissions . In my country, sea cables don’t work for borneo and needs satellite internet for wider coverage, which is not in place yet . The other user profile could be say people working in foreign countries and wanting to transfer funds back and don’t often have the accessibility of wifi
After some tuning from what probably was the first[1] message posted by SMS on Nostr, here is the code!
sms2nostr is a proof of concept of a sms-to-nostr gateway that permits a user to post notes on Nostr using non internet enabled phones and IoT devices, or feature phones when the network is not available.
https://github.com/dtonon/sms2nostr
Can be useful? Crazy and useless idea?
Beta live playground available!
If you want to try it right now feel free to DM me, I setup a USA number that can receive sms from all over the world.
This first test instance will be shared publicly as soon the code will be a little battled tested, follow me to keep yourself informed.
Special thanks to #[0] and #[1] for reminding me that Twitter was born with SMS support, so why not Nostr? :)
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