What do you do when you need to send or receive Bitcoin but you don't have Internet? Nothing. Absolutely nothing, right?
Wrong.
Bitcoin is not tied up to the Internet, just like paper money value is not tied up to the physical paper.
Based on that, and looking at the increasing measures of censorship in various countries, like Russia, a team put together a Github repository for alternative Bitcoin sending methods. Eventually, these methods will be implemented in Samourai, a popular mobile wallet.
From the initial Readme:
We are interested in assisting with the development of any alternative paths for bitcoin pushTx including but not exclusively limited to:
SMS relay
satellite hook-up
fax or any form of hard copy to character recognition
save to external support (USB)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
telex
HF audio
Morse code
meshNets
NFC
BLE
chat apps (especially encrypted)
Now that's really something. If done - and it will be done - this will decouple Bitcoin from the most sensitive part of its actual body, the peer to peer Internet connection, which is, right now, very vulnerable, from DDoS attacks to censorship.
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Wouldn't some of these sending methods be very vulnerable to being intercepted?
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Looks interesting if it works
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I remember in the late 80s, when I meet an old man playing chess by post with somebody he met when he did his mandatory military service tens of years before. Each of them had a chess table, and they were sending the next move by post. Therefore, why not also interacting with the block-chain? :)
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These are actually super easy, if you are technically savvy, you could do them the hard way.
But, it would be nice to see these methods as ubiquitous as using pngs in any software you write.
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Well, this is an interesting development. I guess the old saying is true; "where there's a will there's a way".
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Yep, couple this with the fact that the bitcoin ledger is now being broadcast from satellites and you're talking about some serious resilience to any form of control. Seems to me like the centralized mining is pretty going to be the last weak link.
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That's a good news , I am sure many are having problem with that.
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Indeed... it's unstoppable
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I can't wait to send Bitcoin via Morse Code.
I believe there will be a big market for that.
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Now bitcoin really going forward in every way
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