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Transmission of Bitcoin Across Borders Successful Without Internet or Satellite Now Possible

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Sayantoni Banerjee
Sayantoni Banerjee
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Bitcoin is usually sent through the medium of mesh networks and satellites. But new experiments are continuously being conducted to protect privacy and evade the government eye. In the latest experiment, Bitcoin was internationally transmitted by high-frequency radio during a snowstorm.

Although at first, Coinkite founder Rodolfo Novak did not get a response to his call from BTC recipients, the following day found someone with a software-defined radio (SDR) and antenna. What followed is a Bitcoin transaction from Toronto, Canada, to Michigan, USA, by means of a pre-configured brain-wallet and an app called JS8Call, which can send text strings over radio frequencies.

Bitcoin sent over national border without internet or satellite – just nature’s ionosphere – Nick Szabo, leading cryptographer

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According to Novak, a brain wallet must be well-constructed so as not to cause any safety issues. The brain wallet is for remembering the seed phrase in your head and not writing it down anywhere to prevent risks. This is especially helpful while escaping an oppressive regime with only the essentials in our bag. Another new feature is the use of high-frequency (HF/HAM) radio, which could also prove to be lifesaving in certain circumstances.

In nations like China, the government has been putting their citizens under surveillance by trying to control the internet – their way of connecting with the outside world. Recently, rumors about Russia planning to adopt a similar strategy have surfaced. As we have learned from post-apocalyptic and dystopian movies, HF radios are handy when all other means of contact with the world prove to be inoperable.

Besides, as Novak also stated, “encrypted communication is not permitted over Amateur radio unless the cipher is public.” Therefore, it isn’t permissible except maybe during an apocalypse.

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