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Skycoin Digest: Skywire Meshnet Project [INFOGRAPHIC]

1. Skywire objectives:

  • Increase broadband competition.
  • Provide an alternative to ISPs.
  • Enable communities to build ISPs on user operated infrastructure.
  • Create a global open access mesh network, or “meshnet.”

2. Skywire is a new privacy protocol.

  • Low Latency
  • High Performance
  • Privacy Preserving
  • Supports Operation Over Wifi
  • Supports Clearnet Operation

3. Open access and privacy preserving.

  • Anyone with a client can connect to a Skywire node.
  • Traffic passing through your node cannot be traced to you.
  • Nodes forwarding traffic can only see the previous and next hop.
  • Third parties cannot link packets to a stream or user.
  • Third parties and forwarding nodes cannot read contents of traffic.