This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Deborah Simpier and Justin Kilpatrick, co-founders of Althea, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) platform and blockchain that enables the coordination of multi-stakeholder networks.

Althea is built for a fast and affordable, locally run internet. Althea's unique cooperative vision for the internet brings peering from the data center to the field. Empowering communities to build multi-stakeholder networks faster and more affordably than legacy telecom models. The core technology behind Althea is a price-aware routing protocol and blockchain-based payment system that debits and credits funds based on a router’s bandwidth usage. Althea decouples the service and infrastructure layers of Internet delivery and coordinates transparent and programmatic revenue sharing.

We spoke to Deborah’ and Justin about Althea and:

• Open source
• Linux
• Engineering
• Impacting the world
• Bridges
• The philosophy behind building them
• Mesh networks
• Bandwidth
• Payment channels
• TCR
• Cryptography
• Working nights
• Delivering products
• Routing
• Decentralization
• Tools
• Libraries for web3
• Economic incentives

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Special Guests: Deborah Simpier and Justin Kilpatrick.

Links:

• Althea
• Bitcoin
• Cosmos
• Ethereum
• Gravity Bridge
• IBC
• Spank chain
• Tendermint
• XDAI