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Tap-to-pay with CashuBTC ecash — for bitcoin.

Fiat credit cards nailed the UX: fast, offline, works anywhere.
I always wanted that for Bitcoin.
Now it’s open-source. Private. Instant. Beep, done.

In the video: two Cashu wallets for bitcoin.

Left: @Minibits (PoS)
Right: cashu.me (payer)

Ecash is sent directly via NFC — no internet, no delay. Beep, boop.

Ecash is a bearer token — the money lives on your device, not on a server. That’s why it pairs so well with NFC. Pick an amount, tap to send. No talking to servers. No syncing. Just push it over. The payment is pretty much instant. A PoS can accept ecash from any mint and receive payments via Lightning.

Still early days, but we’re experimenting. Card-to-phone works, but phone-to-phone? That’s the real killer use case.

Apple famously locks down the iPhone’s NFC chip — good monopolist.

F*k that. I found a workaround.
As long as one phone (ideally the PoS) is Android, you can send data both ways between iPhone and Android.

(You don’t really own your iPhone.)

Peace!
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PAɃLO · 74w
Woow! orange nuts magic 🍊⚡️🥜
Deleted Account · 74w
You’re teaching me some cool things!
rfc · 74w
Calle I want to learn more about using ecash offline. Can you point me in the right direction to some resources?
UNCLE ROCKSTAR · 74w
reat work, cypherpunks write code ✊🗽
TheRealFaketoshi · 74w
cool, but couldn't the payer reverse the payment when connecting back to the mint first?
Rydal · 74w
🔥
⚡️DEFAUXKING⚡️ · 74w
Noice ✊🏻 I can’t wait to get an opportunity to try it out
Chris · 74w
Do you do this all on your own? If so, why doesn't it exists already 10 years?
Cormac · 74w
Bitcoin person to person payments. That easy… Theres just no reason to have PNC, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Blackrock, US Gov’t, Chinese Gov’t, Paypal, Venmo, or any of those companies to take our money and pay somebody FOR US and take a cut EVERY FUCKING TIME when there ways now that we can...
cozie · 74w
Any idea why my tokens are stuck in pending mint for days? Was playing around with cashu.me. Deposited 10 sats on Lightning, tried to mint tokens (or at least I think I did) and it’s been like this for days. https://m.primal.net/PnyE.png
Bright Orange Yolks · 74w
My eggs are sold for sats. I use the strike app for lightning payments from my hodling customers. How do I test cashu? Couldn’t find it in the App Store. Maybe I own the wrong kind of phone.
OrangeSurf · 74w
is there any significance to the fact that in one direction there was no fee, but in the other direction there was a fee?
beejay · 74w
>You don’t really own your iPhone. What about with GrapheneOS?
Corrado Alvaro · 74w
Wow! It’s like a peer-to-peer electronic cash system! 🤯
Satking · 74w
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DasFrettchen · 74w
Hero
mobiusmoe · 74w
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SwapMarket · 74w
Interesting! I used to think Cashus were a waste of time and effort because of the inherent rug risk. Now I think it is useful as PoC for the future when Arc tech matures. I can see myself holding a bearer Bitcoin that can be unilaterally exited to chain in a worst case scenario.
Santiago Alessandri · 74w
This is freaking awesome. The UX/UI improvements of this are massive. Question regarding offline payments, I don't see a way of guaranteeing no double spend. Are you taking the approach that trust between customer/provider is required in this scenario? IMO, that's a total valid point. The service pr...
trae · 74w
we are on the right track to a sovereign and decentralized future
Kush · 74w
Calle…. my G! You be heavy!
Oshi · 43w
Were u at tab7conf? Wink one for yes, twice for no