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The broadcast is global, the ability to recieve the broadscasts is... uh.... an implementation detail left to the user! (NB: involves satellite dishes)

• grubles 8y ago
  The antennas required are the ubiquitous commercial satellite TV kind which you can probably find on craigslist for free. The other hardware costs < $100. The software is all free (along with the broadcast itself).
  • RL_Quine 8y ago
    Can you link to a single satellite for free on Craigslist?
    • grubles 8y ago
      Sure can. :-) https://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/zip/d/carlsbad-directv-satellite-dish/6794102659.html https://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/zip/d/carlsbad-directv-s...
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• RL_Quine 8y ago
  Buy data transmission for an obscure currency, use obscure lightning software to use the obscure currency to pay a company to transmit data to something you need to buy dedicated hardware for. Hapless optimism aside it’s hard to see what benign purpose this could possibly be used for. It’s sort of strange to bother with anything custom. Bitcoin signatures have a free, encrypted data channel within ECDSA signatures. You can just broadcast those through the normal bitcoin network without paying Blockstream.
  • r32a_ 8y ago
    This is to be used for areas that don't have access to reliable internet
    • RL_Quine 8y ago
      For what, exactly. People keep saying this and having nothing backing up why it could possibly be useful to have a mechanism for receiving broadcast files with a lot of dedicated hardware required.
      • jacobush 8y ago
        Number stations come to mind.
• vilaca 8y ago
  "the ability to receive the broadcasts is left as an exercise to the user"