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title: "Of the decentralized projects I'm aware of, the Althea mesh network…"
date: 2019-01-06
source: facebook
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# Of the decentralized projects I'm aware of, the Althea mesh network…

*January 6, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://althea.org/whitepaper](https://althea.org/whitepaper){target="_blank"}
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Of the decentralized projects I\'m aware of, the Althea mesh network is the most promising. It\'s an incentivized mesh network of COTS routers. They have working prototype hardware and code, and a prototype networks in Clatskanie, Oregon and Medellin, Colombia. The current goal is a layer 2 network, but the long term goal is to have their own decentralized backhaul.\
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[https://althea.org/whitepaper](https://althea.org/whitepaper){target="_blank"}\
[https://www.reddit.com/r/altheamesh/](https://www.reddit.com/r/altheamesh/){target="_blank"}\
[https://medium.com/althea-mesh/althea-in-rural-oregon-a16e4e8cc2a7](https://medium.com/althea-mesh/althea-in-rural-oregon-a16e4e8cc2a7){target="_blank"}\
[https://althea.org/medellin](https://althea.org/medellin){target="_blank"}\
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I particularly like the Althea networks decentralized governance model. By design, no single company or organization controls the network.
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