Bitcoin plus Mesh

[Brooks Boyd]

Random, half-baked ideas for future musing: Open Garden has started developing the concept of "mesh networking", which they've used to give their own app FireChat the ability to dodge around network restrictions/outages/firewalls (used successfully in Hong Kong by protesters).

The idea of mesh networking could be very useful for Bitcoin and other blockchain-dependant altcoins and processes (e.g. BitMessage) where there's no cell coverage. If there's enough mesh coverage to transmit transactions into the P2P pool, one-to-one transacitons could be more easily done "offline"? Also, Open Garden warns that FireChat is not encrypted; if BitMessage could use their API (when it becomes available), maybe that could solve that need?

Brooks

[Sidney Zhang]

Interesting!

My initial reaction is What about double spends in this case?

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