Althea

Althea, a system that lets routers pay each other for bandwidth, is launching its first network in Africa in early November 2019. An…

Small Business

Cosmos is a project creating an “Internet of blockchains” which will be linked together through the IBC protocol. Unlike many blockchains…

How a poorly coded smart contract disrupted an ISP in rural Oregon.

We launched six new Altheahoods communities in early May. An Altheahood community is selected by an organizer as a potential deployment…

A look at Traffic performance

sorry for the delay between updates, pollen season hit me pretty hard and I accidentally skipped one while under the weather.

Taking a note from Google’s rollout of their fiber networks, we are introducing the new Altheahoods program! This program supplies…

Once you design a distributed system to handle any one point of failure you don’t stop having failures, they just get more complicated and…

We were so busy building and growing I think we missed an update in February! We now have 23 users in Clatskanie, and several relays (a…

When we talk about Althea’s design often the first question comes down to ‘why home internet’. Why do we focus on home networks when what…

What’s New In Beta 3?

In retrospect why is pretty obvious, we released payments and then immediately set about doubling the size of our test network. In doing…

It was raining. It always seems to rain just as we pack up the rig with all of the antennas, cables, and tools. My fellow subnet organizer…

Beta 2 is finally out and running in the wild. It’s two weeks behind schedule and contains zero new features.

It’s difficult for big telecom to make money selling bandwidth to small rural towns or low income urban areas, otherwise they would…

Rolled out @AltheaOrg Beta 1 today in production. Members of the Clatskanie Co-op are loading up their routers with ethereum, which…

Starting at 8pm Pacific time yesterday through 3am Pacific time today Althea’s exit servers were down.

Right now Beta 1 rc3 is churning it’s way through the build system

Since our last update bandwidth payments have been making their way down the stabilization pipeline we’re going to roll out Alpha 12 to…

In this post I’m going to explain Althea’s billing system and how it provides more transparency, choice, and control than the traditional…

Pragmatic bootstrapping

Globetrotting and training

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