Kryptoradio Lets You Connect To Bitcoin Network Without Internet
A company out of Finland has created a way for people to connect to the Bitcoin Network without the internet. According to their website, Kryptoradio is a: “bitcoin data transmission system” that Transmits bitcoin transactions, blocks and currency exchange data in real time. Uses terrestrial television transmitters (DVB-T) around the world. Finnish quasi-national cryptocurrency FIMKrypto has struck a partnership deal with Koodilehto, a Finnish software company, in order to launch world’s first development project that aims to broadcast cryptocurrency transactions through national TV....
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There is one major impediment global Bitcoin adoption: the Bitcoin network lives on the Internet. Right now, the Internet is only available to a small portion of world's population. But apparently there are other ways of connecting to the network. Thanks to Kryptoradio, users may be able to broadcast Bitcoin worldwide using national television broadcast. Merchants and consumers will be able to connect to the network and receive transactions, with any standard digital television device. It could have interesting implications. For example, in regions where Internet access is patchy at best,....
A new project that transmits bitcoin payments over the radio is up and running in Finland - and it's also transmitting a national Finnish cryptocurrency at the same time. Kryptoradio is a data transmission protocol designed to transmit low-bandwidth information over one-way digital broadcast networks. Joel Lehtonen, the project's founder, said he is focused on using Kryptoradio to transmit block chain information. The project is currently halfway through a two-month pilot phase in conjunction with Finnish broadcaster Digita, which allows the system to transmit bitcoin transaction....
Technology that could enable Internet-less Bitcoin transactions is no longer merely theoretical. A team of programmers is successfully piloting Kryptoradio, the experimental software that broadcasts Bitcoin over a national Finnish television network. "We have received many listener reports around Finland," project lead and Koodilehto developer Joel Lehtonen told Cryptocoins News, "so the signal is transmitted correctly in all regions of Finland." Developers received official approval from Digita TV, a national network, and launched the plan in July. Kryptoradio attracted the eyes and ears....
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