[PPRAANet] Sending Bitcoin over ham radio

[Douglas Hagerman]

I am trying to untangle whether this is legal. It is not a commercial transaction, I guess. You’re just sending information to yer pal.

???

Doug, W0UHU.


In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind transaction, two developers working in separate countries have successfully sent a bitcoin lightning payment over radio waves.

Organized over Twitter this past weekend <https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1101518677910810624>, the transaction was sent by Rodolfo Novak, co-founder of bitcoin hardware startup CoinKite, to developer and Bloomberg columnist Elaine Ou. The completed payment effectively moved real bitcoin from Toronto, Canada, to San Francisco, California.

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-coders-send-international-lightning-payment-over-ham-radio <https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-coders-send-international-lightning-payment-over-ham-radio>