<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>gladstein wrote</title><author_name>gladstein (npub1tr…8hdpu)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>One amazing thing I learned about (out of many) at the ecash conference&#xA;&#xA;A router for sharing internet&#xA;&#xA;Someone from India, living in a place with a lot of internet access problems, built a set-up where people can buy internet without having any internet in the first place. 1 sat per minute&#xA;&#xA;He built a captive portal that you log into and the page says — I take ecash from this one mint, get ecash from there and paste it into this text box — you paste it in, hit enter, and you’re online&#xA;&#xA;You’ve made an offline payment and voila, you&#39;re now online&#xA;&#xA;There are many exciting Bitcoin developments happening but it&#39;s becoming more clear that ecash is a wholly different, complementary technology that does different things, including many things that Bitcoin can&#39;t do no matter how many upgrades it gets</html></oembed>