Venezuelan developers create a network for transmitting bitcoin over the air

Venezuelan developers are creating a decentralized cellular network, Locha Mesh, based on radio waves, whichwill allow you to carry out transactions with Bitcoin without an internet connection.

Open source project developmentLocha Mesh is led by Randy Brito, a member of Bitcoin Venezuela. The team is working on Turpial and Harpia devices, with which any user can connect to the Bitcoin network through radio waves.

Turpial is a simplified version of a radio transmitter,operating in a radius of one to two kilometers in an urban area, and Harpia can be used as a radio module for microcomputers. Venezuela often shuts off electricity and the Internet, and these devices will become an alternative method of transmitting data in critical situations.

Both devices are portable and battery operated,and they can be integrated not only with Bitcoin, but also with any other blockchain. In addition, they can be used to send messages and transfer files similar to the IPFS distributed file system.

Brito explained that the network does not have towork with nodes connected to the Internet via a landline telephone. Users with satellite dishes can also act as gateways and transmit data on the Locha network. The development of devices is planned to be completed by the second quarter of this year.

Let us recall that in March last year, Bitcoin was successfully sent over radio waves from Toronto to San Francisco via the Lightning Network.

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