Skywire aims to provide an idyllic internet experience for the global masses regardless of their economic status or level of regional development. Political status likewise remains irrelevant to who deserves access to a safe & open internet, as freedom of speech & an unrestricted flow of information overtake all forms of censorship. A handful of gigantic ISPs currently illegally collude to monopolize & divvy up the lands’ consumers, restrict users’ choices, & deliver services which regularly decrease in quality while simultaneously increasing in price. These organizations can thankfully now be replaced by a new landscape of ISPs & WISPs run by private citizens. Together, these ordinary individuals are creating a robust & truly unsuppressed communications network spanning the Earth for the first time in history. A private network created, owned, & operated by the people. This is Skywire.
What would it look like for the world to embrace & such a system? The idea of an uncompromised internet feels like both a familiar memory & a wishful dream of the future, although the truth is that such a thing has never been seen before. Thankfully, it is now within our reach & closer than ever to being fully realized. People everywhere could go to sleep each night & wake up every morning without fear that their personal data & browsing habits have been sold behind their backs or their private messages were spied upon.
Imagine that your service provider is not the only one available to you but is in fact surrounded by competitors. You have the benefit of the Skywire meshnet policing itself to bring consumers a safe & reliable product rather than forcing you to rely upon an illegal corporate monopoly. Violating Skywire’s intrinsic Terms of Service brings about an unwanted blemish in any would-be malicious actor’s service record & public reputation, one which cannot be changed & results in the banishment of their system’s credentials. This is all part of the revolutionary Web of Trust established by consensus through Obelisk. Obelisk has been in research & development since 2011, is wholly proprietary, & makes other traditional consensus mechanisms such as PoW & PoS obsolete, proving how old, insecure, centralizing, & extremely energy consuming they really are.
Say farewell to internet passwords too. You’ll perform a simple initial setup on your phone, laptop, desktop, tablet, game console, etc., through the Skywire Manager to arrange where your payments for data come from & never think about it again. From when you first check your emails & other messages in the morning, to your drive to work, your day at work, or your visit to a new friend’s place after a night on the town to new hotspots, & travelling internationally, you’ll not have to bother asking for access to the local Wi-Fi. If you have Skycoin in your wallet then you have a continuous supply of Coin Hours. If you have Coin Hours then you have bandwidth for private & secure access to the world of information around you. No matter where you go a new generation of Skycoin’s proprietary OpenWRT routers & antennae, as well as third party & DIY ones, will allow your devices to auto-configure & connect to the meshnet once in range, all without ever bothering you. Skywire is hardware agnostic.
Forget paying a monthly subscription for a data plan or signing a contract, Skywire’s business model has no need for such a thing. Users everywhere can now pay as they go without being prompted. The time of overpaying for internet access is gone for good since you’ll never pay for more than you use when you use it. Even better, you’ll never pay for more than the true market rate. Developing nations are hit hardest by these policies where people in rural villages often pay exorbitant data plan charges which constitute most of their income to stay connected. They do this in order to stay in contact with their families & organize their lives while they remain unable or struggle to feed, shelter, or medicate themselves as a result. No longer can anyone anywhere be charged for more bandwidth than they consume or more than it’s worth.
Gone are the days of people in desperate situations being gouged by corporations in faraway lands or nationalized organizations at home for basic services which are then under-delivered. Now packet routing & forwarding services will be performed locally & reward those in the community rather than draining the locale of its assets. Everyone from the most financially secure families & well connected institutions as well as underfunded public services to the poorest individuals have experienced the unjust pains of having their internet access throttled by ISPs intentionally & illegally throttling their bandwidth speeds which they each equally & fairly paid for. Until now there’s been no option for anyone to circumvent these thefts & crookedness. Thankfully, we’re moving past those dark days & into a brighter future powered by our bright blue SKY.
As for distant ISPs draining capital from the poorest people & most remote regions, Skywire not only keeps the generated wealth localized but enables even the most destitute to better their lot in life. Skywire has many DIY enthusiasts at the heart of its global community. Not only are the 1st Gen Skyminers made from easily accessible & affordable parts, but many inexpensive processing boards other than the originally intended ones have likewise been made usable by both hardworking team members & users abroad. Skycoin’s developers have done all they can to ensure the ability of any interested parties to join in & offer their services alongside those who support R&D by purchasing official hardware. The idle hardware of many thousands of people globally has already been utilized. As the remainder of the world’s boards are employed & expand the Skywire meshnet, more & more technically inclined people join forces & become empowered by earning a valuable passive income stream for themselves while simultaneously protecting their data.
Should potential users have the single-board computers (SBC) but not antennae at their disposal or even be living in an area where openly displayed equipment is sure to be stolen for scrap or resale, there’s no need to worry. The DIY community has come to the rescue yet again by dedicating themselves to the documentation of how to assemble transmitters & receivers from scraps & what would otherwise be considered garbage. As a result of making antennae able to be forged from found materials & integrating widely available & low-cost computing equipment, the Skywire meshnet is poised to overtake every region from the remote jungles of South America & Asia to the islands of Oceania, bridging sparsely populated plains & deserts of Africa & America while embracing inner cities everywhere & inspiring the designs of new low-cost homemade communications equipment. People of nations whose governments are keen & quick to impose harsh restrictions & censorship upon their citizenry’s internet access also stand to benefit greatly from Skywire’s ease of access & censorship resistance.
People buying or building miners & antennae are naturally incentivized to spread them far & wide, covering as much territory as possible & spreading internet access as broadly as they can. The more locations you fill with even a single node & antenna the better off you are. By pushing the boundaries of Skywire’s meshnet topology to the farthest reaches of the Earth rather than rewarding people for hoarding massive amounts of processing power into a single location, we create a distributed web which stands stronger than even a decentralized structure & bring more people into the fold. The network is innately designed to extend itself as far & wide as civilization stretches & even into the vast wilderness, bridging the gaps & covering those in isolated communities. Those who go out of their way to cater to distant people by supplying bandwidth to neglected areas are substantially rewarded by positioning themselves as the predominant private ISP in the area.
In Skywire’s utopia it pays to travel. Even a car can partake in Skywire with LoRa devices. The roads themselves become a new channel of communication as the vehicles comprising their traffic assist with data trafficking on their journeys. Using small hardware modules, cars & even motorcycles can house a node & antenna so your daily commute helps pay for itself. Opportunistic packet forwarding payments can steadily add up & nobody passes on the ability to be paid for what they are already doing. Drivers could even see new reasons to drive slower & safer as time spent on the road is now extra time spent earning passive income. Decelerate your car & effectively get paid to accelerate the Skywire network.
In this world your assets can automatically buy & sell themselves. Your single-board computers earn you passive income by processing data packets while your antennae use software-defined networking (SDN) & software-defined radio (SDR) to traffic data along its routed path. Your funds are sent directly to your wallet. Your Skycoin funds naturally accrue Coin Hours. Your wallet’s manager automatically sends your Coin Hours to the Coin Hour Bank. The Coin Hour Bank automatically funds your Skywire usage & auto-sells your Coin Hour balance for more Skycoins which are sent back to your wallet. Your wallet continues to generate more Coin Hours than before, feeding a positive cycle of passive income generation for you. This cycle enforces constant scarcity in the Skycoin & Skywire economy which ensures that the market capitalization & price remain high since there is constant demand for & circulation of Skywire’s underlying assets. This is done by using Coin Hours as a commodity currency backed by bandwidth on a civilian built & owned network dedicated to open access & development, freedom of speech & information, & economically uplifting those who who put in the effort to better the system.
Skywire opens up new options for developers as well. Developers can use Skycoin’s CX programming language to craft programs which they never would otherwise be able to. CX is the most advanced language created by any cryptocurrency or blockchain project, having been in development for five years already. Its Golang-based syntax enables easy recruitment of seasoned professionals & training of new programmers while the deterministic nature of its architecture & new paradigm of affordances positions it as the perfect solution for blockchain computing across the new internet, the Skywire meshnet & darknet. This world of free internet will be teeming with anonymously built & funded apps & dApps, all of which are able to be integrated with Fiber blockchains, utilize CXO’s immutable object based file-sharing system, run CXFX graphics, engage genetic algorithms & other machine learning tools, employ mathematics libraries, & more. The world of Skywire is yours to build in freely & without restriction. Skyfleet is here to craft & hand you all the tools you’ll need to do so.
What sort of world do you see Skytopia as being? What do you want it to look like? Tell us how you’d like to see Skywire unfold & what a world finally united by a secure, cost effective, civilian owned & operated mesh internet looks like to you. Skyfleet has come far & accomplished much but there is still a long way to go. Become part of the network & ensure that your voice is heard, your vision recognized, & the brightest of all futures is realized.
Join us at https://t.me/Skycoin & https://t.me/Skywire.
Discover more at https://skycoin.net, https://skywug.net/, & http://github.com/Skycoin/.
You can also learn more about how to get involved with Skycoin, Skywire, the CX language, & other associated technologies at the following locations.
Telegram:
https://t.me/Skycoin
https://t.me/Skywire
https://t.me/SkywireMeta
https://t.me/SkywireAntenna
https://t.me/Skycoin_CX
https://t.me/Skycoin_Game_Dev
https://t.me/SkycoinDev
https://t.me/SkyfleetAcademy
https://t.me/SkycoinNews
https://t.me/SkyfleetNews
https://t.me/SkycoinRewards
https://t.me/SkycoinSupport
…..and many more. Join the Skycoin chatroom for direction to others including regional, foreign language, & special interest groups.
Reddit:
https://reddit.com/r/Skycoin
https://reddit.com/r/OfficialSkywire
https://reddit.com/r/CX_Language
Discord:
https://discord.gg/ygZycut
Medium:
https://medium.com/@SkycoinProject
https://medium.com/skyfleet-captains-log
