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Yeah, the bigger question is how does one become a satellite teleport station? And what hardware/software would be required? What are the reg requirements? Cost? So many questions....

Hm. I wonder if this can help the issue of providing a stable blockchain for the Martian colonies. I want to be sure I can withdraw Bitcoin at any Mars ATMs.

has to be down only, there is no uplink gear in that BOM

Coverage Area

Blockstream Satellite currently covers nearly 2/3rds of the Earth's landmass. To see if you are in the coverage area, use our Interactive Coverage Map

Hardware Required

To utilize the Blockstream Satellite network, you must have the following hardware at a minimum. These items are available from resellers around the world and we are currently working with a vendor to provide complete kits and components.

Following is a list of all the hardware required:

45cm Ku Band Satellite Dish (antenna)
PLL LNB (linear polarization) w/ < = 200kHz LO stability
LNB Power Supply
LNB Mounting Bracket
Software Defined Radio interface
Cables, Connectors, and Mounting Hardware
1. Minimum 45cm Satellite Dish (bigger is better)

Blockstream Satellite is designed to work with small antennas only 45cm or larger in diameter. However, a larger antenna is always better. When possible, we recommend installing an antenna larger than 45cm if one is readily available. 60cm, 90cm, and 1.2m antennas are readily available.

Other than size, the only other requirement is that the antenna will work with Ku band and higher frequencies.

Satellite Frequency Bands

Blockstream Satellite operates in Ku band.

C band: 3.4 GHZ - 4.2 GHz

Ku band: 11.7 GHz to 12.7 GHz

Ka band: 17.7 GHz - 21.2 GHz



Software Requirements

Three software components are needed to utilize Blockstream Satellite:

Bitcoin Fibre: http://bitcoinfibre.org

GNUradio: http://gnuradio.org

Blockstream Satellite Receiver: https://github.com/Blockstream/satellite



All this and more = https://github.com/blockstream/satellite

I'm not sure if this already was the bottom.
We could also see a second wave and drop to 3500 for a short while.
The newbies who joined this space just a few days ago and bought Bitcoin without knowing what it is and how it behaves learn their first hard lesson now. For us oldies here it's no big deal anymore. Let it drop, layer in if you have some money on the sideline and wait for the honeybadger to bounce and move up higher again.

See my post above^^

Looks like 4 so far currently in orbit  https://blockstream.com/satellite/satellite/

Thanks for the tips. Recommending the video is a great idea.  If this goes over well, I also have an online store that I plan to do the same with at some point.

Ik zal er de Belgen maar bij doen, groet uit Gent... .

So you should have a BitCoin ATM

Awfully sketchy on any details. One way or two? How many satellites in orbit? What percentage of the population do they cover? Uptime for each region?

Of course, we've had bitcoin transmission over packet radio for years.

I thought Blockstream didn't like Garzik's ideas?

edit: more info is indeed available. Looks like a one-way* broadcast of Blockstream's version of the definitive chain as per the mining backbone. Seems like a useful addition. Should also drive hime how fallacious the idea is that non-mining, fully-validating nodes add any value to the network. Any node using this will be on Blockstream's filtered version of the truth, or not participate at all.

*Looking for evidence of two-way comms. Without an uplink, the idea that this will allow participation by the masses lacking internet access is a hollow lie.

There's an online merchant that got some of my bitcoin in exchange for gold and silver. Their bitcoin, should they still possess it, is now worth 34% more than my gold and silver.

But I'm not sad at all. A fair trade at the time.  

Did you guys miss this bit?

On launch today, Blockstream Satellite is already available across two thirds of the Earth’s landmass; and will reach global coverage – to everyone on the planet – by end of year. As more people access the Bitcoin blockchain with Blockstream Satellite, we expect to see even more adoption and use cases for Bitcoin as well as a strengthening of the overall robustness of the network.

https://blockstream.com/2017/08/15/announcing-blockstream-satellite.html

Explore the system = https://blockstream.com/satellite/menu/

Current status    = https://blockstream.com/satellite/satellite/  

Groetjes uit Turkije(Izmir) normaal gesproken Rotterdam.

Ja dat kan je dus wel zeggen 

Very cool. I did some gold buys with a coin store and I found I spent a lot more when I was using Bitcoin (at $600-$800 a coin I sometimes kick myself but that's life). Let us know how it works out, more merchants should do this.

LF: Merchant who accepts bitcoins.

I have allot of people asking me to show them how to purchase BTCitcoin and how it works. I Always tell them to watch the movie: Banking on Bitcoin.

If they dont even want to spend an hour and a half to get to know how bitcoin works im not helping them. If they do watch it and ask me again later i do help them with setting up an account on Kraken and show them how it works.

maybe print out a card with some links, then you can politely say "yes, it is the payment method of the future, but I don't have time to bring you up to speed on it right now, please check out these links and do your own diligence...it is your money.

I'm not sure I want to set wallets up for customers, I'm usually very busy but I'm thinking to offer a discount of 10% if they use bitcoin. More incentive! And yes, just seeing the sign will have a big impact even if I don't have any btc transactions.  I'm a little bit nervous to have the sign knowing it will likely lead to lots of conversations during my sales time.

Agreed. That said.... for sending a single TX one could use SMS/MMS as an uplink. TX's are small.

The problem there is uplink.  Your phone can hear satellites all day long, as it does with GPS (also radio) but you need both a real antenna, and a power budget that is not coming from a phone, to be heard by the bird.

Sorry I jumped your case, I was arguing with someone just the other day that insisted that their smartphone was not a "radio"


yeah, they need to flesh this out better...right now I smell

I think that is awesome! We need more local merchant acceptance. Just seeing the acceptance signs will start to change public perception of bitcoin. Perhaps you can even offer to help customers with setting up their bitcoin account and wallet.