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RE: Steem Dollars for Real Estate?

in #steemservices8 years ago (edited)

Hi, IT guy here!
Yes, we're going to be using Airfiber long-range wireless equipment from the Wireless ISP (WISP) industry to get bandwidth out to the Fort.
I'll be at Porcfest in a few weeks to demo some of the gear, and speak about the benefits to freedom communities.
DAOWISP is a gradual project of mine to develop a decentralized ISP model. All the Internet-Freedom projects take the semi-centralized physical landscape of the Internet as a given, being government-controlled territory and something to work around. But we WISPs have been operating a viable alternative for almost a decade now and cover something like 60% of the US population at this point.

And our gear has taken a quantum leap in performance over the past year, putting small business ISPs on an equal speed/price footing with the likes of Frontier, Comcast, Centurylink, etc. And of course we can push bandwidth around WAY cheaper than a fiber-optic network like Google's! 2016-2017 will see some big shaking up in the ISP competition landscape...

I'd really like to see the thousands of WISPs spread around the world team up with the freedom community, as just about every blockchain project out there could benefit from an independent network.

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Yeah, but getting the economics right on this kind of thing is tricky, especially without massively spamming blockchains with expensive microtransactions. I'd love to see more about this, though. You say ~60% of the US population is covered, so how do I get on one of these networks instead of the local cable cartel's?

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