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>>5418571
Those were my frist impressions. I first checked them out in 2013-2014 but wrote it off as very far from maturity (I was correct). They are going in a LOT of directions, but they've been at it non-stop since the end of 2011. It's just now leaving stealth phase because the developers all have so much bitcoin (that they got unimaginably cheap), so they have NEVER tried to pump the project for cash flows. That to me is HUGE.

Money means nothing to these guys. Success, however, is paramount. All those directions have been developing for 6-7 years, and are finally coming together.

The backbone is a meshnet connecting through any possible datastream. I'm talking USB, Ethernet, WIFI, 3/4/5G, HAM radio links, VPN tunnels through legacy ISP/L3 backbones, anything that is popular/available enough to warrant the development work.

All traffic is encrypted end-to-end, all traffic is dynamically multi-hop routed like the TOR network. Low "mining" resource overhead because instead of PoW it uses a hybrid system incentivizing packet forwarding (network participation). None of that energy is wasted. Its a decentralized ISP.

Smart contracts, dapps, there's a messenger and a BBS (both are functioning proof of concept, with literally no features/bells and whistles. These guys have been working from the bottom up.

Mark I network hardware (skyminer) is being set up for testnet right now (I believe). Wallet and apps are fully functional routing through local home IP over legacy TCP stack.

I could go on. I'm still catching up on how far these guys have gotten in 4 years. I'm fucking impressed.