Arrived in Aruba yesterday after my uncle passed away. Good to be back 'home' with family. 💙
Hit the barber today and ran into an old colleague from my Aruban police force days! When it came time to pay, it was cash or a local payment method called Sentoo.
From a user perspective, Sentoo was flawless—scan a QR code, hit a payment link, open the local bank app, and approve. Seamless. But looking at it through a technical and merchant cost lens, Lightning and Cashu (nprofile…cmar) still blow it out of the water. ⚡️🥜
Numo Pay would have been an absolute game-changer for this merchant—instant, zero-fee tap-to-pay offline via ecash, backing up directly to btcpayserver (nprofile…5kvh). The island is already comfortable with QR-based instant payments... now we just need to help local shops swap out the legacy banking middleman for sovereign rails! 🇦🇼
cc: BitcoinAruba (nprofile…03tj) #Aruba #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #Cashu #BTCPayServer #Payments
Pierre Simon
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2026-07-25 15:04:38 UTC
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