"If anyone asks, we are doing it to strengthen national security, to make
America's networks more secure against terrorists like Comcast :D" lol

This is great news! I'm glad others are working on it, the micropayments
part is what we're struggling with the most, I'll forward it on to our team
:D I'm sure our projects are going to collide, let's connect our meshes in
the middle and free the westcoast!

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 7:50 PM, snakecharmr <snakecharmr1024@???>
wrote:

> Greetings from California! We are working on something similar in Santa
> Cruz. We are using bitcoin micropayment channels to make mesh nodes data
> merchants.
>
> We worked out a skeleton of a bartering protocol and are working on doing
> an implementation in now, first in python to debug, then in C/++ to make it
> easy to port to many platforms. Here's the protocol
>
>
>
> We wanted to leave room for clients to develop their own bartering
> strategies, so we didn't get too specific on how to converge on an
> agreement, and since there's no obvious right answer for the parameters of
> the micropayment channel, we let that be part of the negotiation.
>
> If you want to check out the git repo (very minimal atm) go here:
> https://github.com/snakecharmer1024/BitMesh
>
>
> If anyone asks, we are doing it to strengthen national security, to make
> America's networks more secure against terrorists like Comcast :D
>
> Seriously, tho, we would definitely appreciate any constructive criticism
> of the protocol as it stands. It needs to be made more detailed, but the
> basic ideas are expressed, I think.
>
> Also, if anyone wants to jump on the project, I'd be super stoked. We all
> have day jobs and are working on this in spare time.
>
> Smash the st8 & masturb8
> SC
>
>
>
> At Decentral Vancouver we're working on the very early stages of an
> incentivized mesh with bitcoin micropayments (for now) is anyone else
> working on something similar? Basically hobbying around at this point, but
> with the ideal of subverting our ISP's. Canada's ISP's are a notoriously
> overpriced oligarchy.
>
> our first node:
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