How To Sell Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi, For Fun and Bitcoin!

I don’t have dedicated home internet at my apartment — but my neighbor’s cable company will sell me wireless internet access from his cable modem for $10/month. Then I run TollGate.me on a cheap router and resell that bandwidth as a Bitcoin-powered hotspot.

In this session I’ll show you exactly how it works: the simple hardware setup, how Lightning micropayments flow in sats every time someone connects, and how people in a good location with excess bandwidth can(*) turn it into automatic bitcoin income with almost zero ongoing effort.
(*) Where permitted by your ISP’s Terms of Service

I’ll bring my hotspot router so you can try it yourself — I’ll give you a sample of ecash to use for paying to connect using your phone or laptop, and you’ll see the sats flow in real-time.

If you’ve ever wanted to set up a tiny ISP that pays you in bitcoin while you do (almost) nothing — or just see decentralized internet access in action — come check it out. No slides, just a working hotspot with real payments happening live.

• Intermediate
• Emerging Tech