This almost 60 year old vending machine only takes sats! After all that time, without a single Freon refill, it still dispenses ice cold Coca Cola glass bottles. It was surprisingly simple to retrofit, using a Raspberry Pi, a relay and LNbits. You can visit it at DCTRL at 330 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC.

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On Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace you can often find beautifully preserved old vending machines. Especially those from the 60s and 70s tend to...

First the Gulf, now the Lake, next the mountains. Total Italian cultural victory!

The Skeena is a very short train traveling a long distance. It travels for 1.160km from Prince Rupert on the BC coast to Jasper in the Rocky Mountains. These days, it only has three cars: A baggage car, a passenger car and the Park Car with its dome, accommodation for staff, cafe and club lounge. The train stops overnight in Prince George and rolls for about 12h on the first leg, and 8h on the second. #trainstr

The worst train food I had outside of China and Russia. Turkey ham sandwich, CA$8, served on The Skeena between Prince Rupert and Prince George #trainstr

Find me in the bullet lounge #trainstr

Find me in the bullet lounge #trainstr

This is the ultimate Lightning Node.

The Bitcoin Block Party, together with the Learning Bitcoin Conference, is THE Bitcoin event of the year in Western Canada. Don’t forget to RSVP, and more importantly, show up! August 22-23, downtown Vancouver, BC

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Vancouver’s Bitcoin Block Party is back on Sunday, August 23, for the biggest celebration of the summer! This FREE, all-ages event will take over...

Nobody ever built a highway rest stop and gas station like this. Absolutely stunning. Chicago Union Station, built 1925

What a beautifully maintained commuter car, taking me to the Chicago Bitcoin Collective this morning. As a tourist I’m in awe of the historic railroads of Chicago, as a commuter I’d probably expect some upgrades, especially to trains, stations and tracks. This stuff must fail a lot, and it’s slow

My camera is somewhat broken, so now everything looks gloomy and dated. It’s called the Chicago filter. #trainstr

Breakfast on Via train 71 from Toronto to Windsor. The meal is included in the business class ticket (~US$54) ticket and served at your seat. Drinks are served repeatedly. #trainstr

Hot meal on Via train 45 from Ottawa to Toronto. #trainstr

99% suggested tip? Lmao I’m not even in the U.S. right now

Seeing the potential in every person, project and place is such a curse.

Exploring Canadian railway history. And look, a marmot!

How are your local Nostr and Bitcoin IRL communities doing? As active as two years ago? Less active? Entirely inactive? What about adjacent communities? Very curious to hear some stories

Too many stories about people losing their Bitcoin read like this: “So I went to meet this guy at the gas station. We know each other from Facebook Marketplace where he brags about being former Iranian intelligence. He has some investment tips for me, and gave me a USB stick to plug into my computer. Somehow the program wasn’t running properly (I’m still on Windows 7, sorry). Somebody on Reddit suggested this could be a hacking attempt? Anyway, I went to sexure.seedcheckrx.biz and uploaded my wallet, but the site says everything’s alright. Now my wife is really mad at me. What did I do wrong?”

What do these mean, and who has been putting them up around Vancouver?

The greatest restaurants are just holes in the wall. No reservations, no table service, no cutlery.