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Anyone interested in learning more about #blockstream satellite?

The free service allows you to download all bitcoin data without internet & without your isp knowing you run a bitcoin node. You are on your own for transmitting your 250 byte transaction though. Consider postcards or using an SMS bitcoin relay service.

Minor trust issue with getting all your bitcoin data from a single source, so a sanity check is required before considering a payment to you as finalized (besides waiting 6 or so confirmations).
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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

Working on it!

And you should look into amateur radio for broadcasting other data.

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

I really should. Im taking a little more time off this year, so I should get my hands on license. Maybe I can reach @NVK in Toronto from here in Arizona.

Also, that dish will work for eutelsat-113 in a large part of the US but might be a stretch for reaching Galaxy-18 satellite.

I have a link somewhere to estimate requires dish diameter.

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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

If you get licensed, I’m in northern Shenandoah valley.

Iirc, it’s a minimum of 45cm for Galaxy18. Finally got the LNB amp in the mail yesterday so should know for certain soon.

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

Yeah, but where I live 45 cm is marginal. But being an over achiever, I went with a 1.2 m dish (there is essentially no advantage over a 60 cm dish given how the data is redundantly transmitted…it’s fairly tolerant of outages).

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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

The dish was free. 🙃 might upgrade later.

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

I started with the same dish. Worked hard to get it pointed at G18, which wasn’t my best choice, but at the time I didn’t know how to look up expected power at my location.

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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

Wait. So this dish will or will not work? Haven’t gotten to testing stage yet.