Distributed Charge
1900 sats \ 14 comments \ @andy 24 Aug 2022 bitcoin
Hello Stacker News!
I'm new to this website and hope to use it as a platform from now on to share updates to my project Distributed Charge: http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/ .
Distributed Charge aims to make bitcoin the native payment method of the energy grid by creating hardware devices, open source software, and standard protocols for negotiating real time energy pricing and micropayment between machines, on every corner of the earth.
Every electric meter should allow for bi-directional payment and energy flows, and everyone should be able to easily buy and sell energy privately without the need to involve third parties or inflationary monetary systems.
The first application of Distributed Charge is focused on payments for charging electric cars, specifically cars manufactured by Tesla.
Today's update is instructions on how to connect my custom hardware, Board A0, to the Tesla Gen2 Wall Connector: http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/EV/TeslaGen2WallConnector/ .
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120 sats \ 1 reply \ @earnbitcoin 24 Aug 2022
Welcome, Andy!
By the way, your interview on Changing the Tide podcast from February was shared here on SN:
📺 +🎧 Changing the Tide 0.00000015: Andy Schroder, Distributed Charge + Board A0 ⚡️ #12319
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135 sats \ 0 replies \ @andy OP 24 Aug 2022
Thanks, I did not realize there was already a post here about me! I just discovered this website about a month ago and definitely like a lot of things about it!
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Majjin 24 Aug 2022
Extremely interesting project!
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 24 Aug 2022
This is so cool!!! Wish I could buy these and start installing them all over the community
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @andy OP 24 Aug 2022
Which parts specifically do you want to buy?
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 25 Aug 2022
Hmm haven’t thought about this but I would buy the module that allows the power for sats flow then try to see if I could scale and complete with EV charging stations. I would do a really small pilot first and then try to expand from there
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @andy OP 25 Aug 2022
Board A0 is ready to ship now as a stand alone component: http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/news/2022.04.01-BoardA0FirstMiniProductionBatch/ . If you are interested in a more complete package, please contact me privately to discuss: http://andyschroder.com/contact/ .
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 26 Aug 2022
Thanks but I’m a long way from having enough capital to tinker with this idea
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @kilianbuhn 24 Aug 2022
That's f-inf amazing 🤩🤩
Can people do this undercover without their provider knowing?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @andy OP 24 Aug 2022
Which provider are you talking about?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kilianbuhn 25 Aug 2022
The electricity provider of course
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @andy OP 25 Aug 2022
In order for someone to accept bitcoin they are going to need to know that they are accepting bitcoin.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 24 Aug 2022
Impressive goal you have there. Wish you the best of luck because if you succeed this could revolutionize how humanity deals with electricity and payments for the better.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @holzapfelbaum 19 Feb 2023
(A belated) welcome @andy!
It was great to interview you last year. That was essentially a year ago now. Glad to see the project continuing to make progress!
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