Sample envelope
$50 to mom — from Burning Man.
No cell signal, no WiFi, no internet. Five hops later, mom got the money.
DeliveredPAYMENT · NORMAL priority · 4,117B
@colt→@mom
Sent
11m ago
Delivered
just now
Origin
Offline Queue
Closed via
Internet
Carries Loadit parcel #a4f2c8e1… — view Dollar DNA →
Delivery chain (5 hops · 11 minutes · 120 miles)
- 1→Local Queue → Bluetooth LE · ~6mvia @@sarah · 11m ago
- 2→Bluetooth LE → WiFi Direct · ~14mvia @@marcus · 10m ago
- 3→WiFi Direct → Apple Satellitevia @@kate · 8m ago
- 4→Apple Satellite → Internetvia anonymous satellite relay · 7m ago
- 5→Internet → Internetvia @@mom · just now
The journey, step by step
- Colt queues the payment on his phone (no signal in tent). Envelope sits locally.
- Sarah walks past him. Phones BLE-handshake in 400ms. She carries the envelope toward the communal shelter.
- At the shelter, Sarah's phone WiFi-Directs the envelope to Marcus's phone (bigger battery, closer to edge).
- Marcus hands off to Kate, whose iPhone 14+ is in range of Apple Messages Satellite. Envelope goes up to LEO.
- Apple's sat bounces it to Apple's ground station, which POSTs to Hylaq Star's /api/hs/ingest over the internet.
- Mom's phone polls /api/hs/pending and fetches it. Her Veritas key decrypts. $50 in her Loadit wallet.
Total time: 11 minutes. Total cost to Colt: $0 (all peer-to-peer + Apple's free satellite tier).
The mesh never dies. Even when the internet does.
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