# Bitlinq Bitlinq is a self-sovereign full-duplex global messaging system. - [Main information page](https://www.eyeonorbit.com/2019/10/bitlinq.html) - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/bitlinqs) - Main proponent email: [email protected] ## Eye On Orbit Page (Main Info Page) Bitlinq is a self-sovereign full-duplex global messaging system. Stay tuned at [bitlinq.space](http://bitlinq.space/) (for the moment, this will be redirected to the page you are looking at now) and the [bitlinq twitter account](https://twitter.com/bitlinqs). Bitlinq is an Eye On Orbit innovation. - In a **half-duplex** or **semiduplex** system, both parties can communicate with each other, but not simultaneously; the communication is one direction at a time. - In a **full-duplex** system, both parties can communicate with each other simultaneously. - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Duplex_(telecommunications) With the increasing surveillance of networks by nation states, and large tech companies keeping track of every move on the internet, a niche market emerges for self-sovereign global communication. **Bitlinq's ultimate aim is to launch a small cubesat sized satellite with a payload containing a Cryptocurrency node, as a gatekeeper for a user programmable store-forward tranceiver.** The Crypto Node in Space enables the service to become self-sovereign without losing a business model. Secondly, users on the ground can build their own user terminal from non-SatCom specific or proprietary components, which employs an unlicensed portion of the Electromagnetic spectrum for communication to and from Space. Users within certain geofenced areas, enabled by donors to the Bitlinq Lightning Node (in Space), can use the system free of charge. An additional service being contemplated for further implementation on board the bitlinq payload, is a space based node for Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) based on Decentralized IDentifiers (DID). ## Bitlinq Presentation on YouTube 89 views lmao ![[Screen Shot 2021-07-21 at 5.25.09 AM.png]] [[Lightning]] integration - Payments between terminals - Use it to pay for the Bitlinq service - Pay the GEO operators - Pay the Bitlinq network as the link between the LEO and GEO operator ### Roadmap ![[Screen Shot 2021-07-21 at 5.28.23 AM.png]] INFRA-2: Reduce the size of the receiving device INFRA-3: Dedicated Bitlinq satellite that connects users all over the globe ### Contact ![[Screen Shot 2021-07-21 at 5.35.58 AM.png]] Email: [email protected]