🙏✨ Beyond HostelWorld, a great travel accomodation option could also be https://selina.com. Source: about 1 year ago

Hey everyone, I am planning on making use of my remote gig in the fall of 2023 after I graduate the May before, and am thinking of starting in Mancora Peru. I have spent quite a bit of time on selina.com looking at their hostels, and they have one there, and they look pretty sweet. Not to mention their co-work space would be useful. Monthly airbnb's seem to be cheaper though and there shouldn't the headache of... Source: almost 2 years ago

Selina hotel chain has acquired them and they use their hotels and coworking spaces to host Remote Year participants (except in countries where Selina is not present). Source: about 2 years ago

> Moving to a cashless society has some real drawbacks when it comes to privacy and freedom. As I understand it, the people developing GNU Taler, are trying to solve this problem and have come up with a promising system. https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

GNU Taler is an example of the third possibility. If Bitcoin is "digital gold," Taler is digital banknotes. Source: over 1 year ago

You should check out GNU Taler[1]. Literally attempting to solve this problem. [1]: https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Beyond 2FA, some type of chaumian cash like https://taler.net/en/ might help too. But the problem is really downgrade attacks. There are multiple payment systems (bank wire, check, credit card ) and if there is one insecure way to make payments, then the whole system is broken. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

GNU Taler comes to mind but the adoption is not there. Source: almost 2 years ago