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Something is wrong with the link or website.
The idea as a PoC is not bad, but it would probably make more sense to use an open standard like GNU Taler for it and only do the data transmission over Meshtastic.
Link works fine for me, but it was also covered on Hack-A-Day: https://hackaday.com/2025/12/05/off-grid-small-scale-payment-system/
From my understanding, this project is setup like a store gift card / transit fare system with a central "bank" for the accounts and deposits. As for Taler, I haven't looked into that as de-fi is not really one of my interests (and is usually all about cryptocurrency which I have even less interest in). Will take a look though.