Bitcoin in Space: Download the Full Blockchain without Internet

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Blockstream’s upgraded agreement for its satellite service makes it practically possible to upload a full flage client without an internet connection.

Blockstream has just uprise its satellite network that involves the Bitcoin blockchain in the last two years for the first time. The data charge is now 25 times greater and users can access an integral hub without any web connection.

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The Blockstream satellite service offers internet-free Bitcoin (BTC) transactions and data share to crypto users in nearly every section of the world. The industry has hired six geostatic satellites that are used to broadcast the blockchain to Africa, Europe, South and North America, and the Asia Pacific region.

May 4 declaration by companies website, the Canada-oriented blockchain company’s Blockstream Satellite 2.0 contains a quality-maintained transmission agreement, more broadband, extra support regions, and “the ability to sync a Bitcoin full node all the way from the genesis block up to today.”

The entire history of BTC beamed from space

The announcement said:

“Instead of requiring users to connect their Bitcoin full node to the internet for the initial sync—as was the case with 1.0—Blockstream Satellite 2.0 now enables full history synchronization! Blockstream Satellite users can hook up a Bitcoin full node and fully download the entirety of the Bitcoin blockchain, from the original 2009 genesis block right up to today’s latest transactions…absolutely no internet required!”

The modernized network is the first renovation since Blockstream launched an application programming interface (API) in December 2018 to its first model of the agreement published in August 2017. The DVB-S2 agreement for model 2.0 reportedly enhance

operational potential and signal responsibility reflects higher bitrates and improves data quality and broadband.

Blockstream Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Samson Mow took the chance to take a bash at competitor blockchain Ethereum, commenting on Twitter that “it takes less time to sync a new Bitcoin full node over Blockstream Satellite than it does to sync a new Etherium full node over broadband.”

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