Just got Machankura a few days ago. For SA, it's a game changer. It opens up just about all of Africa to Bitcoin.
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Discussion
Absolutely, as long as the telcos don't shut it down and Mach doesn't need to go through some grey routing to maintain their USSD and SMS comms with the LN node they can keep onboarding people.
I would like to see additional options like eCash backends and maybe even eCash federations or your own LND-hub setup so you can build this for your community, will be great for stokvels and buidling circular economies
When I start a lightning node, I'm quite keen to provide wallet function to people in my area with LNBits. Been looking at it seeing lots of possibilities. Also some potential for offline transactions