Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
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Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#2It should really say "proposed" somewhere in the title.
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#3It should really say "proposed" somewhere in the title.
Totally agree. Sounds great, but I'd like to know more about who is behind it.
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#4It should really say "proposed" somewhere in the title.
Totally agree. Sounds great, but I'd like to know more about who is behind it.
Don't get me wrong, I really like some of the concepts they are considering for the architecture, however until there is a working beta, I'm just going to file this as vapourware.
I am always a little suspicious of publicising something as a solution before a prototype exists.
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#5I'm no expert on mesh networks so maybe someone can tell me - how would a mesh network connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas? Or San Francisco to Salt Lake City?
Given the populations on both ends, I assume you'd need more bandwidth than you could get from wifi routers with pringles can antennas.
I assume the companies who own long distance fiber have to do what the government says, as they need government permission to dig up the streets and install more fiber meaning they can't afford to upset politicians. So you can encrypt the traffic, but if the word comes down to cut the cable the cable gets cut.
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#6does "bitcoin-based" have anything to do with the priority of delivery over the network?
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#7The 1st time I heard the analogy of a "silk road" online, it wasn't for an underground marketplace, but an agoric packet-routing scheme, the "Digital Silk Road":
http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Bionomics/Extropians/HardyT...
Under that scheme, local microcredit along each hop would (theoretically) allow global routing without any global/monopolistic governance or currency.
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#8I'm no expert on mesh networks so maybe someone can tell me - how would a mesh network connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas? Or San Francisco to Salt Lake City? Given the populations on both ends, I assume you'd need more bandwidth than you could get from wifi routers with pringles can antennas. I assume the companies who own long distance fiber have to do what the government says, as they need government permission to…
A related question: Does the proposed protocol allow the mesh network to be run on top of the existing Internet?
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally agree. Sounds great, but I'd like to know more about who is behind it.
Don't get me wrong, I really like some of the concepts they are considering for the architecture, however until there is a working beta, I'm just going to file this as vapourware. I am always a little suspicious of publicising something as a solution before a prototype exists.
This is a problem with the Bitcoin community. I think enthusiastic people come up with a good idea and release a white paper, thinking others will jump on board to help make a prototype.
They forget that Satoshi released a white paper, then put his nose to the grindstone for 2-3 months before releasing a working implementation.
Re: Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
#10Ripple (as it was originally conceived by Ryan Fugger) seems to be a much better match for this idea than bitcoin. The connections between nodes could work as the local credit relationships of Ripple.