• by geenkeuse on 10/1/2024, 9:40:39 PM

    Meanwhile, here in South Africa, our intrepid criminals are making their own simcards, by the bucketload..

    https://www.citizen.co.za/sandton-chronicle/news-headlines/l...

    For fun - Put that phrase in Google. "No chill in Mzanzi"

  • by supernihil on 10/1/2024, 5:24:49 PM

    When thinking about offline currency and simcards we identified the following:

    verifiable centrally issued identifier printed on card and can be verified by inserting into any phone

    coin-like small physical tokens

    offline verification processes could be as simple as a distributed poster with whitelisted id's

    distributed and decentralized bootstrapping based on trust in accepted id's.

  • by nomisssssss on 10/2/2024, 6:55:04 PM

    As you know this is imho a cool idea. I'm thinking, what hinders the barista in usecase 1 from using the received simkojn in the cash register?

    Isn't some sort of removal of cards from the list necessary?

    Maybe I'm missing something...

  • by popcalc on 10/1/2024, 5:49:49 PM

    The AI generated graphics really cheapen your effort.