Dogecoin aims to provide offline transactions over SpaceX Starlink satellite network.

Dogecoin will support offline transactions with Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink technology. In December 2021, the Dogecoin roadmap released the first glimpses of RadioDoge technology in conjunction with Starlink.

Two prominent members of the Dogecoin Foundation recently published an essay discussing how to perform DOGE transactions without using the Internet by utilising RadioDoge technology in conjunction with the Starlink satellite network. Although there is a long road ahead for development, CryptoPotato reports that the framework for future trials has already been built.

Timothy Stebbing, the Dogecoin Foundation's Product Lead, and Michi Lumin, the Foundation's Principal Engineer, have teamed up to develop a new communications network. It will let users conduct Dogecoin transactions offline. This will be possible only with the assistance of SpaceX's Starlink satellite network.

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The key is a new technology called RadioDoge, which is a "cheap and dependable radio technology (HF/LoRaWAN)" that works in conjunction with the Starlink satellite network to provide access to people who do not have Internet access. The other pillar is the GigaWallet initiative. It is a plug-and-play solution (a new type of Doge wallet) for online transactions that integrates a standardised, non-custodial wallet with the Dogecoin network.

The two developers viewed the first sentence of Libdogecoin, a programming library or set of building blocks for developing Dogecoin projects, as the foundation for generating and validating Dogecoin addresses and transactions. They confirmed that Dogecoin addresses established with the library received DOGE on the main network successfully.

The inaugural RadioDoge, which began last week, will serve as a testbed for the new technology. The first Libdogecoin transactions are scheduled to be delivered to RadioDoge this week, where they will be forwarded to the Dogecoin testnet via the Starlink satellite. The new technology has the potential to revolutionise Dogecoin's broad acceptance in emerging economies, establishing the cryptocurrency as a global medium of exchange for goods and services.

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