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exactly. offline customer case is many times more likely than an offline merchant
ODELL's avatar ODELL
also this is a surprisingly common situation throughout the world merchant has internet, customer does not
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the opposite could also exist, tho probably less common: vending machine (offline) - customer mobile (online) in that case, customer/sender can create offline verifiable tokens
This was a specific design goal for my Bitcoin Deposits proposal. Always-online vault pays an invoice based on onion message for the invoice and max fee signed by the deposit private key. Potentially a single NFC tap by an offline customer
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rfc 8 months ago
This is going to take off unbelievably in Africa, we haven't seen anything yet.
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