| 31 Dec 2023 |
 proofofsteve | You know a little nice acronym could be that Althea is allowing everyone to act as a part of a DISP. | 07:08:59 |
| proofofsteve | Pay ISP --> Get Paid to Be DISP | 07:09:14 |
 deb_simpier | Great minds! I was calling it that back in 2019 Era. | 07:09:35 |
 flynnjameson | I'll just leave this list here for you to...look through at your leisure, Deb ;)
Akash
Fina
ALTER Network
Jackal Protocol
Passage Network
Sentinel dVPN
ICNS | 07:10:52 |
| deb_simpier | Akash and Althea teams are close! Good bunch of folks.
Just reconnected with Sentinel as well. | 07:13:21 |
| flynnjameson | Jackal's new tokenomics are worth checking out. From what I'm hearing, it's a real game changer for cloud-based hot storage.
ICNS moreso just relating to easing any sort of friction for payments to addresses, dunno if it necessarily would improve the process, but human-readable Name Services are all the rage everywhere.
Fina is early-stage payments, they have a crypto debit card coming to the EU 1Q24, they did $750k in revenues from their IDO on Shade Protocol in October. They're also looking to build out payments infrastructure for the IBC and others. | 07:16:46 |
|  Discord Bridge invited  krava_16. | 07:46:09 |
| krava_16 joined the room. | 07:46:10 |
| krava_16 | 07:46:10 |
| krava_16 | Who can give me the project documents? | 07:46:10 |
| flynnjameson | i think the user-owned infra AND a dVPN COMBINED is huge.
I mean, who wants their internet browsing history harvested? and if you own the infra, shouldn't you own your data as well? :D | 07:47:46 |
| deb_simpier | krava_16 here's a good start | 07:56:22 |
| deb_simpier | Yeah, so Althea traffic is encrypted back to Althea exits, so in many ways it is a built in VPN.
VPN is a whole big discussion - happy to talk more in am. 🙂 | 08:00:36 |
| 1 Jan 2024 |
| deb_simpier | Hi proofofsteve and Happy New Year's!
For deep diving into the UX, the very best way is to order a router at shop.althea.net and get hands on!
You can also scroll through guides here:https://docs.althea.net/ | 01:42:37 |
 0xggggg | Happy new year all! Big things in 2024 🌟🌟🌟 | 03:05:50 |
| proofofsteve | Ah yes that reminds me of a question I had, do I need to buy specific hardware to use Althea or can it be installed on any home router? | 03:10:16 |
| deb_simpier | Not all home routers have open firmware, but many do. Althea is based on OpenWRT and can be flashed on most OpenWRT devices- here's some we support: https://github.com/althea-net/rita-firmware | 05:01:16 |
| deb_simpier | Happy New Year! | 05:01:31 |
| proofofsteve | This process is probably beyond 99% of potential users. I can pull it off but I doubt my 70 yo father or even my wife could do it without a support agent on the phone walking them through step by step. Are there any plans to make the onboarding UX easier, and if so what are they? | 05:40:19 |
| deb_simpier | Oh yep, we didn't get thousands of end customers by people hacking on home routers. Networks have local operators that install and support the network, they are paid a time based fee from the Althea protocol.
For End users of Althea, it's just as easy as any other ISP. | 05:42:33 |
| proofofsteve | Got it. If I wanted to have my wife try and install this on our home system would it be possible for me to schedule a call with one of them for a test run? | 05:43:53 |
| deb_simpier | (Someone just comes to your house with a router and cpe and you have internet)
Pre pay with a debit card (under the hood bridges to stables).
Routers pay other other and then the operator automatically. | 05:44:35 |
| deb_simpier | Yep, but we would send her a configured router and then talk her through set-up. | 05:45:18 |
| deb_simpier | Unless she wants to operate a network, then we have bootcamps and on-site trainings for that. | 05:45:49 |
| proofofsteve | I meant more for if we have a router which can have Althea installed on it. | 05:46:34 |
| deb_simpier | We are certainly happy to help if people get stuck, but for end-users we def recommend buying the pre-set up ones, and for the more adventurous you can flash your own.
And we have a business team for ISP/Enterprise that is looking to build with the stack. | 05:49:25 |
| deb_simpier | Most folks that just want to use the Althea router/internet will get their router and internet installed from their operator. | 05:50:23 |
| proofofsteve | Gotcha. So to be clear the idea is that the average user will be expected to buy a new router. There may be some assistance for those who want to install their own software on their own router, but it's not a high priority of Althea to improve onboarding UX for those users. | 05:50:34 |
| proofofsteve | Kk | 05:50:36 |
| deb_simpier | Ah, actually most operators install the internet at no cost. Just like your regular ISP. | 05:51:04 |
