281 sats \ 2 replies \ @sime OP 12 Sep 2022
Hello!
I recently signed up to stacker news and thought I would share a project I kicked off many moons ago, but recently brought back to life with the Lightning Network.
It started in 2015 and was running happily until 2018 with on chain payments. The project died when the server had a hardware failure. Then end of last year I rediscovered BTCPay Server and integrated with that to support Lightning only payments.
It gets some love from time to time, but it's a fun learning experience to keep it running.
So on the odd occasion you need to send a fax, please think of Bitcoin Fax.
Cheers!
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 12 Sep 2022
I used few times your bitcoinfax, back in 2016. Worked like a charm.
Nice to see it back with LN!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @HODL 12 Sep 2022
Nice to see it up again. Now I have to find someone (hopefully a friend) who still uses fax machines.
Project of the week!
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138 sats \ 2 replies \ @0260378aef 12 Sep 2022
I wonder what Paul Krugman would think :)
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106 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime OP 12 Sep 2022
Do you mean Bitcoin Fax's biggest influencer? He loves it ;0
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @metamick14 12 Sep 2022
Epic!
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121 sats \ 1 reply \ @purpurato 12 Sep 2022
So cool ! I just sent the white paper to this number
https://country.db.com/canada/?language_id=1&kid=canada.cs-en.hp
It was worth every sat just to think about their faces when they receive it. Please do your part, there's still many offices to orange pill.
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime OP 12 Sep 2022
I hereby appoint you the official honourable title of Fax Troll :)
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110 sats \ 2 replies \ @jack 12 Sep 2022
No exaggeration -- this the best application of bitcoin/lightning I have seen yet. Super useful!
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @sime OP 12 Sep 2022
Very kind! I don't know if it's the best, but it makes sense.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @k00b 12 Sep 2022
Lightning really does shine for low-commitment, one time txs unsurprisingly.
Machine to machine payments are going to be huge for this reason.
https://describe.photo/ is excellent for similar reasons.
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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 12 Sep 2022
It is a bit of an anachronism, but what the hell. It's useful, and that's what counts.
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101 sats \ 2 replies \ @pillar 13 Sep 2022
Just curious: are you putting yourself in risk by sending faxes that could be potentially illegal? As in, hypothetically, you send a fax to the White House threatening to kill the President.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @sime OP 13 Sep 2022
Maybe? I'm happy to have it running and the odd person using it from time to time is a nice feeling.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 13 Sep 2022
I like your attitude :)
Godspeed
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @moel 13 Sep 2022
Zone 1 and Zone 11 have the same price, €0,18.
Why not group them together?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime OP 13 Sep 2022
This is a fair point. They should be grouped. I think there was a time zone 11 had a different price, thus making it a little special.
But now it doesn't make sense.
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31 sats \ 6 replies \ @F 12 Sep 2022
Cool, but what year is it?
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125 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime OP 12 Sep 2022
Not sure, but my mechanical watch is clogged full of sand.
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101 sats \ 4 replies \ @patrick 12 Sep 2022
Lots of banks and companies still require faxes unfortunately.
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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 12 Sep 2022
and police stations!
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @ncryppt 13 Sep 2022
Many many industries still rely heavily on faxes.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 13 Sep 2022
sure... police also is an industry... of beating and stealing from people
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @ncryppt 13 Sep 2022
never said it wasn't!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 23 Sep 2022
Pretty cool
But difficult to find someone with a fax machine
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @NachoKeys 15 Sep 2022
Works perfectly. Like a dummy I chose a 6 page fax to test with vs a 1 pager. Used BlueWallet to pay and it was quick fast. Definitely a winner here.
Salute!!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime OP 16 Sep 2022
Thanks for trying it out !
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 12 Sep 2022
Bookmarked! Thanks and have some sats
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tetsu_tamasi 12 Sep 2022
Wait, what?
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