Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol

Post by userulluipeste » Mon, Feb 17, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #77

lukifer wrote: post #75

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Even if traffic is drastically slower, on the order of a dialup modem, there is still be massive value in free internet for the poor and the developing world. Text is a powerful medium.

Let's figure we can get 10 WiFi links at half of full speed across the country, 10 x 30Mbps. That's 300Mbps, or roughly 1 bit per second per person. About 10 letters per minute. Good luck. Even the very first modems offered 300 bits per second, so you would need 3,000 simultaneous non-colliding WiFi links across the country to have enough bandwidth for everyone to enjoy the speeds of the very first modems - a cool 40…

Post by jnbiche » Mon, Feb 17, 2014, 4:00 PM UTC

kylebrown wrote: post #55

jnbiche wrote: post #9

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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.

According to Satoshi, he worked on the implementation before the whitepaper. iirc he released both at the same time.