Topic: Weird question: Can you send bitcoins to somebody with a HAM radio? - page 2. (Read 2731 times)
March 16, 2013, 11:35:54 PM
Was a common practice here as well, games over FM radio. But anyway, you can whistle Bitcoins around if you want.
March 16, 2013, 11:32:50 PM
Found it.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/experiments-in-airborne-basic-buzzing-computer-code-over-fm-radio/
Seinäjoki, Finland was a tough place to be a budding geek back in 1985. Just ask Eero Tunkelo, a grade school student with a doctor for a father, a mother who taught sewing and textile design, and a newfound love for computers and programming.
"Computers were new, so anything you did, it was—wow!" he told me during a recent phone call. Such was Tunkelo's passion for the technology that he spent an entire summer working so that he could purchase his own Commodore VIC-20—an early home-oriented machine that ran Commodore BASIC 2.0 and predated the more advanced Commodore 64.
With his VIC-20, Tunkelo taught himself BASIC, then studied assembly language. He wrote programs that ran "straight to the metal," as he put it, but also came from the heart. One included graphics that celebrated his sister's high school graduation. But the young innovator felt isolated. "Computers were not as popular as they are now," Tunkelo said, and few schools had one.
Then came a remarkable radio show that changed the landscape for him and a generation of Finnish technology lovers—a show that literally broadcast code over the airwaves.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/experiments-in-airborne-basic-buzzing-computer-code-over-fm-radio/
Seinäjoki, Finland was a tough place to be a budding geek back in 1985. Just ask Eero Tunkelo, a grade school student with a doctor for a father, a mother who taught sewing and textile design, and a newfound love for computers and programming.
"Computers were new, so anything you did, it was—wow!" he told me during a recent phone call. Such was Tunkelo's passion for the technology that he spent an entire summer working so that he could purchase his own Commodore VIC-20—an early home-oriented machine that ran Commodore BASIC 2.0 and predated the more advanced Commodore 64.
With his VIC-20, Tunkelo taught himself BASIC, then studied assembly language. He wrote programs that ran "straight to the metal," as he put it, but also came from the heart. One included graphics that celebrated his sister's high school graduation. But the young innovator felt isolated. "Computers were not as popular as they are now," Tunkelo said, and few schools had one.
Then came a remarkable radio show that changed the landscape for him and a generation of Finnish technology lovers—a show that literally broadcast code over the airwaves.
March 16, 2013, 11:26:39 PM
Someone was looking into using audio cables to hook offline cold-wallet machines for similar transfers so if they found that to work HAM might too, sure.
And if they found it not to work, maybe they just didn't apply the full panoply of signal from noise tools to the job that folk using radio might or could.
-MarkM-
And if they found it not to work, maybe they just didn't apply the full panoply of signal from noise tools to the job that folk using radio might or could.
-MarkM-
March 16, 2013, 11:22:31 PM
Back in the days, in some country in Europe, some would use a radio station to send small apps in BASIC language. You would tape the high pitched noise then play it back to your machine (Amstrad CPC most likely).
The point: from a paper wallet, to a radio signal, to a recorder, then back to paper wallet/online wallet at the other end. The signal would be coded, then decoded.
The point: from a paper wallet, to a radio signal, to a recorder, then back to paper wallet/online wallet at the other end. The signal would be coded, then decoded.
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