Oddbean new post about login | logout Alot of sailors and remote expeditions depend on https://winlink.org, would be so cool if we had a similar network for Bitcoin. - TXN Broadcasting gateways - BBS for Block height/difficulty, fee rate, supply - ZeroLink when comes out will help with building txns with minimum sync Don't need much just enough... https://m.primal.net/KalW.png
Wow. This looks incredible. I joined a local group for disaster preparedness many years ago and of course Ham was a part of it. But no idea that this kind of relay system was in place. Makes me want to get a Ham radio/license. I have a technical question: the radio signals are transmitting emails? I was confused by the description of what is happening with it.
Would Electrum Server be a jumping off point for this sort of thing? I haven't looked at it in detail, but it seems like it's trying to accomplish much the same thing, though with less constrained bandwidth.
This is not like "internet". It's extremely low bandwidth.
No, I understand, I've played around with WinLink a little. I just meant that Electrum has got some of the low hanging fruit of remote/constrained connectivity solved, use that as the beginning. I'd think at a minimum you'd need a way to: 1. Request UTXOs for a given address 2. Transmit transactions 3. Verify fee rate (of the last few blocks?)
