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With no guarantee that this project would ever be useful or even meaningful, I decided to develop a node called Meshtbank.

Meshtbank maintains a central ledger with users, transactions, and balances. It uses the default channel to broadcast system information such as activation and command notices, and it uses direct messages for all operations. An administrator, authenticated through a PIN, can remotely operate the system: creating and deleting accounts, or checking balances and transaction histories.


This would probably work for like a festival or convention. Don't really see it being practical outside of cases like that, but it's a cool use of Meshtastic nonetheless.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Something is wrong with the link or website.

The idea as a PoC is not bad, but it would probably make more sense to use an open standard like GNU Taler for it and only do the data transmission over Meshtastic.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Link works fine for me, but it was also covered on Hack-A-Day: https://hackaday.com/2025/12/05/off-grid-small-scale-payment-system/

From my understanding, this project is setup like a store gift card / transit fare system with a central "bank" for the accounts and deposits. As for Taler, I haven't looked into that as de-fi is not really one of my interests (and is usually all about cryptocurrency which I have even less interest in). Will take a look though.

Here is an archive link of the OP article.

And here is the additional link they added in their comment.