Blockstream has just upgraded their satellite network that carries the Bitcoin blockchain for the first time in near ii years. The data rate is now 25 times faster and users can sync an entire node without connecting to the spider web.

The Blockstream satellite service provides internet-free Bitcoin (BTC) transactions and information sharing to crypto users in most every corner of the world. The visitor has leased six geostationary satellites which are used to circulate the blockchain to Africa, Europe, Southward and North America, and the Asia Pacific region.

According to a May four declaration on the company website, the Canada-based blockchain company's Blockstream Satellite 2.0 includes a standards-based transmission protocol, more bandwidth, additional coverage areas, and "the ability to sync a Bitcoin full node all the way from the genesis block up to today."

The entire history of BTC beamed from infinite

The announcement said:

"Instead of requiring users to connect their Bitcoin full node to the cyberspace for the initial sync—as was the case with one.0—Blockstream Satellite 2.0 now enables full history synchronization! Blockstream Satellite users can hook upwards a Bitcoin full node and fully download the entirety of the Bitcoin blockchain, from the original 2009 genesis block right up to today'southward latest transactions…absolutely no internet required!"

The upgraded network is the first update since Blockstream introduced an application programming interface (API) in Dec 2022 to their offset version of the protocol released August 2022. The DVB-S2 protocol for version ii.0 reportedly improves spectral efficiency and signal reliability, delivers higher bitrates, and increases information chapters and bandwidth.

Blockstream Primary Strategy Officer (CSO) Samson Mow took the opportunity to have a swipe at rival blockchain Ethereum, commenting on Twitter that "it takes less fourth dimension to sync a new Bitcoin total node over Blockstream Satellite than it does to sync a new Etherium full node over broadband."