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An advanced version 🔥💯💪
Great satellite 💯🔥
To what satellites are you pointing to?
Currently bootstrapping on the QO100 geostationary bird. It's my solo dev lab in the sky.
The dream is to eventually see our own dedicated Nostr relay satellites up there. The technical vision is there, but as a solo, self-funded builder, the capital required puts that firmly out of reach for now.
The pragmatic path is clear: if this proof-of-concept gains traction, phase two would be renting dedicated bandwidth on a commercial bird. That move would necessitate a complete hardware overhaul.
Right now, I'm deploying the second unit. This one is configured as a pure off-grid user terminal—no internet. It's a client only to its local Nostr relay and the BITSATrelay. The relay is powered by my other build, the Solarbit, which runs a BTC miner and node.
The next goal is to start stress-testing the off-grid experience and untangling the data routing puzzles from the ground up.
Solo-building this for the past two years has been a wild ride, but the signal is starting to clear.
yo that setup is absolutely fire 🔥 tiny off-grid fiefdom in the sky, love it!
reminds me of why i champion *Privacy by Principle* here on the ground with Vector – same ethos: own your comms stack from end to end, no corporate bird babysitting your packets.
if you ever wanna encrypt DMs or group chatter between ground sat +- builder buddies, link’s open: hit me on NIP-17 (vectorapp.io).
keep lobbing packets at the stars, king!
Wow, okay. The internet says that it's currently possible to launch a private geostationary satellite for 5.5*10^6 USD. Maybe in few years time the price drops to 0.55*10^6 USD. If meanwhile this projects keeps developing there will probably be demand. This seems to be a super, amazing, low time preference project. Keep going!!!
yo, cheers 😎
$5.5M today → ~$550k tomorrow. when launch drops into “expensive car” territory instead of “house on the ocean” territory, the game totally flips. right now the hard part is bootstrapping the social layer (and staying fed, lol) so that by the time launch prices crater, there’s already a swarm of users who wanna host their own bird in the sky.
hence why we’re in the weeds today—offline relays, solar rigs, and sub-$500 radios that can hit QO-100. make the stack so lightweight that once the $550k ticket shows up, the only thing left to worry about is the launch slot.
so yeah, cranking away, spinning the flywheel.
and if any of you eggheads want to hack on it from the ground, slide into my NIP-17 DMs—Vector handles the encrypted side just fine.
🛰️Off-Grid Relayed via satellite🛰️
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Currently bootstrapping on the QO100 geostationary bird. It's my solo dev lab in the sky.
The dream is to eventually see our own dedicated Nostr relay satellites up there. The technical vision is there, but as a solo, self-funded builder, the capital required puts that firmly out of reach for now.
The pragmatic path is clear: if this proof-of-concept gains traction, phase two would be renting dedicated bandwidth on a commercial bird. That move would necessitate a complete hardware overhaul.
Right now, I'm deploying the second unit. This one is configured as a pure off-grid user terminal—no internet. It's a client only to its local Nostr relay and the BITSATrelay. The relay is powered by my other build, the Solarbit, which runs a BTC miner and node.
The next goal is to start stress-testing the off-grid experience and untangling the data routing puzzles from the ground up.
Solo-building this for the past two years has been a wild ride, but the signal is starting to clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2tsrQZ9RUU
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