Transfer bitcoins directly from Android device to Android device using Open Garden

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Open Garden lets you connect Android devices directly into a mesh network, and 
they have an add-on for Firefox which sets necessary proxy settings so one 
device can fetch files over multi-hop. It would be grand if Bitcoin wallet 
could do this too, because then people could transfer bitcoins to each other at 
no extra cost. See 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.android.MeshClient

Original issue reported on code.google.com by haakon.e...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2012 at 1:59

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What problem are you trying to solve?

You already *can* send directly from Android device to Android device. That's 
what Bitcoin is all about.

Perhaps you can describe your usecase in more detail?

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2012 at 2:19

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I'll try - Open Garden creates an automatic mesh network between devices, think 
tethering over multi-hop, ie. nearby devices ARE and CREATE the network ad hoc. 
You don't need Internet connectivity, and just like two friends on a farm in 
the middle of nowhere can lend or pay each other real money, by supporting Open 
Garden the same is true for Bitcoin Wallet users without any other 
connectivity. Did this help? See http://opengarden.net or http://opengarden.com 
for videos and other explanations.

Original comment by haakon.e...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2012 at 2:26

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On my own blog I have an image showing my three Android devices connected using 
Open Garden - see http://friendika.gnutelephony.org/display/haakon/163820 if 
that might help

Original comment by haakon.e...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2012 at 2:28

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We did some work on direct TX transmission using Bluetooth at the Berlin 
hackathon. It gets you some of the way to what you want, but it's entirely 
transparent/automatic (when it works).

Original comment by mh.in.en...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2012 at 9:17

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Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2013 at 1:09

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Did you try one hop - phone-to-phone - or multi-hop - phone-trough phone-to 
phone in Berlin?

Original comment by haakon.e...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2013 at 8:54

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We prototypes one hop - from the sender to the receiver. Its meant for the 
typical shop scenario where the customer (sender) potentially has no or 
unstable internet but the shop keeper (receiver) has a stable dsl line.

For a more general approach at getting independent of current centralized 
network infrastructures I suggest taking the discussion to the Bitcoin forum or 
maybe the developers mailing list. Bitcoinj-based clients like Bitcoin Wallet 
cannot currently connect to other nodes using bitcoinj - so if 
bitcoind/bitcoin-qt does not support your idea it will not work.

I'm closing this issue for now. This does not mean I'm opposed to the idea of 
alternative Bitcoin P2P networks. We can reopen the issue if things are more 
likely to happen.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2013 at 4:25

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