Optimized bluetooth devices and a clear signal path can cover up to 150m (492 inch). That's why Jack's team mention 300m (984 inch) links. If the peers or users relay the messages, they can cover larger distances, shaping a meshnet.
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So, in theory, with enough peers you could cover a whole landmass like America?
Let me tell you about large rural areas 😂
Good for in-city stuff. For larger area Lora is probably more effective. This could be very handy in emergency situations though, especially urban ones. As long as everyone downloads it beforehand, and has an iPhone.
You could have someone with huge Bluetooth relays across aountain range. In theory.
Or we can pay people to mill about 300m apart across large distances to make the mesh network. In theory.
I actually used to work at a wireless ISP, maintaining 50km plus wifi & licensed frequency links. For any kind of distance Bluetooth isn't a great solution. In a more occupied are with a mesh yes, it's more useful. I like the idea, samiz for Android brings the concept to Nostr, plus it can work in a store & forward fashion, combining Bluetooth mesh networks with sneakernet nostr:npub1yjxerh4msvgqf230ej3648a28xhvxjstqr2rhpjt2eelf538e70scnl9d0
There's like 4 of us in the UK who use nostr. I bet there's zero bitch@ers in the UK tho lol 🥲