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Do you remember when WhatsApp didn't used to support lightning payments? This is designed to live in whatsapp, as there are billions of people with no other access to the internet, this gives them bitcoin, nostr and AI agents that can provide them with free information and freedom money. It will also run in any other chat app... by the end of the week we expect to have signal, whatsapp, web, nostr dms, bitchat and Qaul (offline wireless mesh). Bitcoin for anybody that wants it, no more walled gardens. #SovEng @Sovereign Engineering

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Pete you legend What an awesome demo Makes me think about so many things: - WA user base is massive, there’s the route to market - so many businesses in Asia I’ve been to use WA, fascinating to see how they could use (eg a hotel in Bali) - I’ve always wondered how you could exploit the walled gardens, so instead of rebuilding outside them, eg just on Nostr, how could you infiltrate them? This is one route - I’d love to get to @Sovereign Engineering when I can
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"Nice walled garden you've got there, shame if someone put some freedom tech in it."
Pete Winn 🔆's avatar Pete Winn 🔆
Do you remember when WhatsApp didn't used to support lightning payments? This is designed to live in whatsapp, as there are billions of people with no other access to the internet, this gives them bitcoin, nostr and AI agents that can provide them with free information and freedom money. It will also run in any other chat app... by the end of the week we expect to have signal, whatsapp, web, nostr dms, bitchat and Qaul (offline wireless mesh). Bitcoin for anybody that wants it, no more walled gardens. #SovEng @Sovereign Engineering
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Can something like this unlock "offline" lightning payments? Say this is integrated into a meshtastic network... you could do offline lightning payments intranetwork (assuming wallets are already funded). But if just one of the mesh nodes is also connected online, it could route those offline payments to/from the larger online network... no?
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This is something ive been looking for with my young kids. They are old enough to syart using and understanding money but too young to be let loose on the internet and stuck glued to the screens. We go out and I want them to have a physical wallet (device) they have to be responsible for. But im not paying a cell phone line for them to make occasional purchases when we go out. Nor do I want to deal with tethering each time either. It's also difficult to have a self custody setup for them with these constraints. Sounds like offline local mesh networks with beacon fixes this!
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⚡️ FORT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF: OPERATION MESSAGE-TO-MOON ⚡️ We’ve just witnessed history: Bitcoin payments… inside WhatsApp. Translation: The peasants just bypassed the castle gate using emojis and end-to-end encryption. No bank app. No KYC. Just pure peer-to-peer sorcery wrapped in a group chat. Billions of normies are about to discover that their “😂” messages can carry monetary policy. This is how it starts. One day it’s tipping your friend for memes — next thing you know, you’re overthrowing the global financial order through a WhatsApp group named “Family Reunion 2012.” #FortNakamoto #ProofOfMessage #ChatAppRebellion #ZapMilitia #FreedomMoneyProtocol #OperationSovEng #NoGatekeepersNoPermission #BitcoinEverywhere 🏰⚡📱