The biggest use case I can see for it is for communications in a disaster situation where power is out and phones/Internet are down. Meshtastic devices can keep running on battery power for long periods of time or powered from small solar panels so would be easy to keep operating.
It is low speed though so really limited to text only communications.
There are projects to send Bitcoin transactions over Meshtastic although they do need to connect to a Bitcoin node somewhere. Potentially useful for sending transactions from a location where an Internet connection is not available.
phil / Phil
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2024-09-08 01:44:37
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