Andy Schroder - Distributed Charge: Creating a Bitcoin Lightning Network Enabled Energy Grid

Creating a Bitcoin Lightning Network Enabled Energy Grid

The distributed charge project was established 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.

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News

2023.04.16: pyKeysend: send large amounts of data using lightning keysend payments.
2023.01.17: Distributed Charge - GRID Was Live @ Bitcoin Park.
2022.11.17: Updated source code released which includes Distributed Charge - GRID.
2022.09.24: Distributed Charge - GRID: General Purpose Electric Metering With Integrated Micropayments Using The Bitcoin Lightning Network
2022.08.23: Connecting The Tesla Gen2 Wall Connector To Distributed Charge Board A0
2022.06.04: RaspiBlitz on the TOFU
2022.06.01: Updated source code released for Distributed Charge EV that works with Board A0
2022.04.25: How It Works page added
2022.04.11: Distributed Charge Was Live @ Bitcoin 2022
2022.04.01: The first mini production batch of Board A0 is here, and there's a special deal for the first 10 units!
2022.03.31: Weather Proofing Distributed Charge
2022.02.22: Distributed Charge, Board A0, and the Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser were featured on Episode 0.00000015 of Changing the Tide with Jonathan Crabtree
2022.01.22: [beta] Board A0, The First Building Block of a Bitcoin Lightning Network Enabled Energy Grid (Board A0 Overview)
2020.05.26: [alpha] Real Time Machine To Machine Micropayments Over The Bitcoin Lightning Network (Initial Demonstration)

Distributed Charge is a bitcoin only project.

Distributed Charge