Meshtastic is one packet, Reticulum is like TCP/IP replacement, it can split message into multiple packets.
BTW Reticulum is not limited to LoRA. But it works over LoRA, seamless splitting of packets and then reassembling.
Reticulum needs a more performant machine, the ESP32 is only radio interface. So encryption, packet assembly and reassembly is happening outside of the ESP32.
Is there a resiurce list or a podcast you'd recommend to start with?
Download the standard from the LoRa org website.
WAT. So, Meshtastic never used the LoRaWAN packet standard 🙃
No, neither does Reticulum. LoraWAN is one layer above Lora and is not very good, hence we use different protocols for different purposes. Reticulum is it's own network layer that can run over any medium (including, but not limited to LoRa).
I would stick with standards if at all possible, personally. More adoption.
I can see server registration could be an awkward, extra step, but the standard looks very well designed
tp, encryption, dst-sa, and app sockets
reticulum is medium agnostic and very decentralized / self discovering (mesh)
For my use case lorawan is useless.
So does that mean that meshtastic couldn’t be used by itself to relay transactions between Bitcoin nodes?
Well, you can split anything into several messages, like when length of twitter posts in the before Nostr days was limited and you would number the message.
Or when we used SMS max 160 characters and if you wanted to write something longer, you could number your texts and then the receiver would read them in proper order.
Are there any efforts being made to connect meshtastic to Bitcoin nodes to relay tx’s and blocks to other nodes? As like a redundancy to the internet?
not that I know of. lora is not the best medium for this
Hmm 🤔
So if I wanted to make like a PoS device that can relay transactions, and connect in like a mesh network between PoS’s and nodes in a city, could that even remove the need for these PoS’s to need Internet connection and an added laying of redundancy?
with lightning and long close times or cashu, this is possible.
use reticulum.
