Finland Project Beams Bitcoin Over the Radio Waves

Finland Project Beams Bitcoin Over the Radio Waves

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....


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