Samourai and goTenna, Bitcoin Transactions Without the Internet

Samourai wallet that has been working with goTenna has allowed users to send bitcoin transactions without internet. Transaction delivery can be done only with Short Message Service (SMS) only

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Since its founding in 2015, Samourai Wallet has focused on privacy of bitcoin users in its platform. In addition, Samourai Wallet has also started developing Mule.tools, as well as Pony Direct as a foundation to be able to broadcast transactions via SMS in January.

The idea to cooperate with goTenna is none other than because the Brooklyn-based company has produced a network of Internet communications devices. In this goTenna platform, users can easily communicate with each other using only their mobile apps, which will be interconnected with a portable antenna device. So with such a portable antenna device, it no longer has to rely on ISPs and cellular towers.

Network Mesh Network from goTenna, a portable antenna.

Rich Myers, practitioner of goTenna said in bitcoinmagazine.com, "Mesh network on this platform becomes the only alternative of centralized communications network so far. Mesh networks are fully decentralized and more democratic, restoring the power of communication in the hands of its own users. In addition, it is also more resilient in case of disasters that come unexpectedly. The only thing that needs to be prepared is to connect the Mesh network device with a smartphone device only, "he explained.

The ideas of both Samourai Wallet and goTenna are much inspired by the Blockstream Satellite and also the presentations of Nick Szabo and Elaine Ou delivered at the Scaling Bitcoin - Stanford workshop in 2017. In his presentation, Nick Szabo introduced the option of utilizing high frequency radio waves to be used in bitcoin networks.

The cooperation with goTenna, makes the Samourai Wallet users become possible to send and receive bitcoin even though the mobile phone is used in the off line condition. "The freedom to trade bitcoins without permission from any party is not an easy thing without any resistance. We see the opening of the Internet climate but still remain unstoppable with various interests, regulation, and corporation, "said CEO Samourai Wallet.

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