Forget paying a monthly subscription for a data plan or signing a contract, Skywire’s business model has no need for such a thing. Users everywhere can now pay as they go without being prompted. The time of overpaying for internet access is gone for good since you’ll never pay for more than you use when you use it. Even better, you’ll never pay for more than the true market rate. Developing nations are hit hardest by these policies where people in rural villages often pay exorbitant data plan charges which constitute most of their income to stay connected. They do this in order to stay in contact with their families & organize their lives while they remain unable or struggle to feed, shelter, or medicate themselves as a result. No longer can anyone anywhere be charged for more bandwidth than they consume or more than it’s worth.

Gone are the days of people in desperate situations being gouged by corporations in faraway lands or nationalized organizations at home for basic services which are then under-delivered. Now packet routing & forwarding services will be performed locally & reward those in the community rather than draining the locale of its assets. Everyone from the most financially secure families & well connected institutions as well as underfunded public services to the poorest individuals have experienced the unjust pains of having their internet access throttled by ISPs intentionally & illegally throttling their bandwidth speeds which they each equally & fairly paid for. Until now there’s been no option for anyone to circumvent these thefts & crookedness. Thankfully, we’re moving past those dark days & into a brighter future powered by our bright blue SKY.

The Skyminer, backbone of Skywire’s meshnet.

As for distant ISPs draining capital from the poorest people & most remote regions, Skywire not only keeps the generated wealth localized but enables even the most destitute to better their lot in life. Skywire has many DIY enthusiasts at the heart of its global community. Not only are the 1st Gen Skyminers made from easily accessible & affordable parts, but many inexpensive processing boards other than the originally intended ones have likewise been made usable by both hardworking team members & users abroad. Skycoin’s developers have done all they can to ensure the ability of any interested parties to join in & offer their services alongside those who support R&D by purchasing official hardware. The idle hardware of many thousands of people globally has already been utilized. As the remainder of the world’s boards are employed & expand the Skywire meshnet, more & more technically inclined people join forces & become empowered by earning a valuable passive income stream for themselves while simultaneously protecting their data.

Should potential users have the single-board computers (SBC) but not antennae at their disposal or even be living in an area where openly displayed equipment is sure to be stolen for scrap or resale, there’s no need to worry. The DIY community has come to the rescue yet again by dedicating themselves to the documentation of how to assemble transmitters & receivers from scraps & what would otherwise be considered garbage. As a result of making antennae able to be forged from found materials & integrating widely available & low-cost computing equipment, the Skywire meshnet is poised to overtake every region from the remote jungles of South America & Asia to the islands of Oceania, bridging sparsely populated plains & deserts of Africa & America while embracing inner cities everywhere & inspiring the designs of new low-cost homemade communications equipment. People of nations whose governments are keen & quick to impose harsh restrictions & censorship upon their citizenry’s internet access also stand to benefit greatly from Skywire’s ease of access & censorship resistance.

One of countless homemade DIY Skyminer models.

People buying or building miners & antennae are naturally incentivized to spread them far & wide, covering as much territory as possible & spreading internet access as broadly as they can. The more locations you fill with even a single node & antenna the better off you are. By pushing the boundaries of Skywire’s meshnet topology to the farthest reaches of the Earth rather than rewarding people for hoarding massive amounts of processing power into a single location, we create a distributed web which stands stronger than even a decentralized structure & bring more people into the fold. The network is innately designed to extend itself as far & wide as civilization stretches & even into the vast wilderness, bridging the gaps & covering those in isolated communities. Those who go out of their way to cater to distant people by supplying bandwidth to neglected areas are substantially rewarded by positioning themselves as the predominant private ISP in the area.

In Skywire’s utopia it pays to travel. Even a car can partake in Skywire with LoRa devices. The roads themselves become a new channel of communication as the vehicles comprising their traffic assist with data trafficking on their journeys. Using small hardware modules, cars & even motorcycles can house a node & antenna so your daily commute helps pay for itself. Opportunistic packet forwarding payments can steadily add up & nobody passes on the ability to be paid for what they are already doing. Drivers could even see new reasons to drive slower & safer as time spent on the road is now extra time spent earning passive income. Decelerate your car & effectively get paid to accelerate the Skywire network.

In this world your assets can automatically buy & sell themselves. Your single-board computers earn you passive income by processing data packets while your antennae use software-defined networking (SDN) & software-defined radio (SDR) to traffic data along its routed path. Your funds are sent directly to your wallet. Your Skycoin funds naturally accrue Coin Hours. Your wallet’s manager automatically sends your Coin Hours to the Coin Hour Bank. The Coin Hour Bank automatically funds your Skywire usage & auto-sells your Coin Hour balance for more Skycoins which are sent back to your wallet. Your wallet continues to generate more Coin Hours than before, feeding a positive cycle of passive income generation for you. This cycle enforces constant scarcity in the Skycoin & Skywire economy which ensures that the market capitalization & price remain high since there is constant demand for & circulation of Skywire’s underlying assets. This is done by using Coin Hours as a commodity currency backed by bandwidth on a civilian built & owned network dedicated to open access & development, freedom of speech & information, & economically uplifting those who put in the effort to better the system.

Skywire opens up new options for developers as well. Developers can use Skycoin’s CX programming language to craft programs which they never would otherwise be able to. CX is the most advanced language created by any cryptocurrency or blockchain project, having been in development for five years already. Its Golang-based syntax enables easy recruitment of seasoned professionals & training of new programmers while the deterministic nature of its architecture & new paradigm of affordances positions it as the perfect solution for blockchain computing across the new internet, the Skywire meshnet & darknet. This world of free internet will be teeming with anonymously built & funded apps & dApps, all of which are able to be integrated with Fiber blockchains, utilize CXO’s immutable object based file-sharing system, run CXFX graphics, engage genetic algorithms & other machine learning tools, employ mathematics libraries, & more. The world of Skywire is yours to build in freely & without restriction. Skyfleet is here to craft & hand you all the tools you’ll need to do so.

What sort of world do you see Skytopia as being? What do you want it to look like? Tell us how you’d like to see Skywire unfold & what a world finally united by a secure, cost effective, civilian owned & operated mesh internet looks like to you. Skyfleet has come far & accomplished much but there is still a long way to go. Become part of the network & ensure that your voice is heard, your vision recognized, & the brightest of all futures is realized.