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Comment by NVRM

So this seems useless for payment, but here is the real hidden interest:

You can send a file up to 10Kb, and pay for byte sent.

It's cheap, coast looks to be $0.0035 for a 5Kb file.

The receiver can get the file, encrypted, without internet, using only a SDR tv card, amplifier and antenna, worldwide, in 10 minutes.

I see there large possible applications!!!

https://blockstream.com/satellite-queue/

https://github.com/Blockstream/satellite#hardware-requiremen...

https://blockstream.com/satellite-api-documentation/

parent NVRM 7 years ago

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