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Number 2 is about building a mesh network. Thats the end goal. Captive portals are just a useful milestone...

I tried doing number 3 about two weeks ago with the intention of enabling TollGates to resell each other's Internet gateways. The router's resources are much too limited for CDK or cashu-cli though. Now I'm using an endpoint that melts cashu tokens to LNURL.

Eventually the router's need a way to issue payments as well though...

Nodogsplash supports bandwidth management. Should be quite easy to do. I'll start thinking about such features when I'm working on the price negotiation between TollGates

It works on the GLAR300m

LNURLw is not maintained at the moment, but payment might work on other routers if you use LNURLw.

You will to make a custom build of nodogsplash for your router if your not using the glar300m and you want to use e-cash instead of LNURLw

This build is super hacky and the strings that nodogsplash accepts are still quite short. Improvements are most welcome 😀

https://github.com/chGoodchild/nodogsplash

My upcoming todos:

1. Get ndsctl to measure the data usage correctly - might need to dig into iptables

2. Get TollGates to recognize each other so that they can do business with one another

3. Either try to fit a cashu wallet onto the TollGate or make nostr events to broadcast connection intent so that DVMs can pay invoices on the router's behalf

Wow that's probably a huge schock to the system when it comes at such short notice. Generally I cherish opportunities to lower my expenses and I try to avoid having to interact with fiat mines all together. This is easier said than done, but I find it quite liberating when it works...

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Replying to Mindaugas

While being bullish about #bitcoin, we should not forget to remain #wise_and_open about everything, even about alternatives to bitcoin. In theory of course. But the moment you stop doubting yourself, is the moment you become absolutist and actually stop being wise.

Bitcoin is not cool for the sake of bitcoin. It is cool because it protects from abuse by scammers and to some extent from violent thieves, such as governments and smartass banksters.

I say it protects from violence only to some extent because although the only way to steal well protected Bitcoin is torture, the problem is you cannot eat bitcoin. It still has to be exchanged into goods that have to be produced. Therefore, if there is a king or a supreme leader that has sufficient soldiers to own all physical goods of the country by force, bitcoin is helpless.

Therefore, I say, if there exists anywhere a government that over the ages has proven to be capable to protect its citizens from the outside while also not scamming, not abusing, and not limiting individual freedom, then it is better than bitcoin. Because it not only does what bitcoin does, but also protects from an external non-bitcoin mentality aggressor. We cannot say that there are no such aggressors, because that is what greeks thought until latins turned into romans (and endless other examples in history).

If any government over the last say 500 years managed to not cause 40 or 40+ weekly work hours as the minimum to stay afloat, while preserving availability of healthy food and entertainment to anyone willing to move a finger, and also while mostly keeping its territorial integrity and not enslaving the external wold, then that is an awesome 😎 government that I would trust more than bitcoin, and would not risk diminishing its powers in any way. Not even by taking away their money printer if they ever used such. It is critical though that this must have been proven over the past 500 years, not 100 years, and not just promised for the future.

My government 😔 is nowhere near this awesome one, so I am already living on bitcoin standard, but will not stop looking for the awesome 😎 government until I have seen the entire world. And even then I will find myself another doubt 🧐 to chase.

#Thailand is my first next stop.

Bitcoin is auditable and permissoonless. A lot of innovation would be required to get these features into governance structures. Perhaps nostr is part of that solution 😀

I don't think governance can replace money. One is about social problem solving while the other is about optionality and resource constraints.