Bitcoin for Bandwidth: Paying People to Build Networks
Day 2 · 11:30–12:00 · OG stage · Talk
What if you could earn bitcoin by helping others get online? Permissionless money meets permissionless networks. Nostr VPN lets you buy and sell bandwidth for bitcoin. The next step is paid routing with FIPS: ad hoc networks where people earn bitcoin by forwarding traffic and providing internet uplinks where connectivity is scarce, disrupted, or censored.