Lucky enough to have celebrated the end of Indian Summer with a short train ride across the Pitt River, British Columbia

Presenting: The Orange Gift🎁 It’s like zapping someone in real life, even if they don’t (yet) have a wallet. You take out one of the business card-sized cards, scan the QR code with any LNURL-compatible Lightning wallet, set any amount you want to gift, add a personal note and hand it to the lucky recipient, who can redeem the funds by scanning the code with their Lightning wallet. Built on @LNbits using the #Laisee🧧extension.

When you’re syncing a Bitcoin node and the progress bar goes down…

It may be very tempting to “vibe” a menu, but this looks just so much more appetizing. When the menu is slop, the food likely is, too. Not here at Aureliana!

Would you pay extra to ride the subway “first class”?

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. https://stacker.news/items/1556613

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!

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

When will Square enable Lightning payments on their terminals in Canada? The folks in Vancouver are absolutely desperate at this point and will literally do anything to make this happen this year

Cypriot Night

Pizza Day is about paying with Bitcoin, not about pizza.

The spectacular landscapes of Andalusia.

I managed to buy gelato with Bitcoin twice today, in two countries! Both were great and payments went smooth, but the gelato from Sablé in Bologna (left) absolutely blew me away, made by Alessandro, an award-winning gourmand and Bitcoiner.