Crypto chat with the whole world through space

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For a very small fee in bitcoins (~ 2-3 cents), you can now send a message that will come to a random addressee, according to the bits.media edition. Such messages cannot be blocked by ISPs or government. All of this is possible with the help of the Blockstream satellite, an eccentric project announced over a year ago to make Bitcoin available to people without internet access. This can be done through the spacebit.live website. The results of combining these two projects are quite interesting. The users who participated in this small experiment sent out completely different messages - from the bizarre thoughts of an unknown person about Bitcoin to a poem dedicated to the Lightning Network, as well as the encrypted Pepe Frog card.

Based on the Blockstream website, users are sending a lot of messages using the system and there may be more soon. The technology has been launched on the testnet today, but the anonymous creator of Spacebit.live MediumSqueeze hopes that it will soon migrate to the mainnet, that is, it will be used with real bitcoin.

While the idea is viewed by the community as entertainment, some developers believe that the technology opens up new possibilities.

Bitcoin podcast author Ansel Lindner it has the potential for truth fighters - people who expose unethical actions of governments or corporations to the rest of the world. They can use technology to broadcast anonymous messages that cannot be censored, and in Lindner's opinion there is little other way to do this.

“The technology can be used to send anonymous messages around the world. Such messages cannot be stopped by the media, ISPs or the government , ”he said. “When posting such messages on social networks, they can still be censored. If you write something like this on your own site, it will be harder to remove this information, but it will be easier to find you. An encrypted message or email can also be censored by harassing multiple people. But the message sent via satellite will be very difficult to stop."

However, the site's creator sees this as just a way to continue to voice their opinion on Bitcoin.

“This kind of network is not meant to publish regular chatter, this is true 21st century cyberpunk,” MediumSqueeze told MediumSqueeze.