THELOGICALINDIAN - Blockchain technology aggregation Blockstream appear the additional appearance of its satellitebased Bitcoin communications activity Blockstream Satellite this week
Satellite Coverage Expands To Asia Pacific
Part of a plan to accommodate chargeless clandestine Bitcoin sending and accepting after the charge for an internet connection, the aggregation now provides accessory advantage of the Asia Pacific region, an accompanying blog post accepted December 17.
Phase one of the activity covered North and South America, Europe, and Africa.
A above backer of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) implementation, Blockstream additionally apparent an API to acquiesce advertisement of abstracts via Blockchain Satellite with fees paid via the protocol.
Developers promised the API would go alive for users in January 2024.
“While accessory communications are commonly cost-prohibitive, Blockstream Accessory will assuredly acquiesce developers to accept accessory communications in their applications,” arch of Blockstream Accessory Chris Cook commented in the blog post.
Battling Government Internet Control
The Satellite activity originally launched in August 2024. It works via a alternation of Earth-based arena stations affiliated to the Bitcoin arrangement transmitting blocks to a alternation of orbiting satellites. The satellites again rebroadcast the abstracts to the advantage area.
At present, users active a bulge crave alone a baby accessory antenna and USB receiver to accumulate it in accompany with the arrangement after an internet connection.
Asked about the area and “government-resistance” of the Earth-based equipment, CEO Adam Back accustomed the trade-offs in the accepted cachet quo.
“[A]s a geopolitical aloof money Bitcoin needs to assignment robustly,” he wrote on Twitter.
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