[00:07.400 --> 00:13.300]  Hello, thank you to the Monero Village organizers and the Monero community for inviting us
[00:13.300 --> 00:18.600]  to be part of this amazing conference and the opportunity to show you what we are doing at
[00:18.600 --> 00:25.140]  LochaMesh. We are going to show you a demo of the LochaMesh, which is a community-driven,
[00:25.140 --> 00:30.600]  open-source software and hardware project. It started two years ago with the idea of making
[00:30.780 --> 00:35.400]  a decentralized censorship-resistant network for payments and communication without internet.
[00:35.400 --> 00:41.060]  For disaster-hit countries and privacy-concerned individuals and groups who would like to keep
[00:41.060 --> 00:46.960]  their privacy and their communications and payments as private as possible.
[00:47.480 --> 00:54.480]  Well, Mesh Networks has existed for decades now, but we focus our efforts on making one
[00:54.480 --> 01:03.340]  that doesn't rely on seed nodes or bootstrap nodes or servers nor intermediaries at all.
[01:03.340 --> 01:09.480]  Each LochaMesh node is independent and can keep enough information for it to be able to
[01:10.140 --> 01:16.820]  deliver messages through PATH and HOPS to its destination messages and data without internet
[01:16.820 --> 01:26.340]  at all. Well, Luis, who is the CTO, will show you a demo of a Monero transaction that is going to
[01:26.340 --> 01:31.720]  take place from a completely off-the-grid computer that is only connected to the LochaMesh network
[01:31.720 --> 01:37.960]  to a remote Monero node. Luis?
[01:38.980 --> 01:45.760]  Good afternoon and welcome everyone. I would like to start by thanking all
[01:47.380 --> 01:56.720]  of the Monero community and especially to those who supported us through Monero CCS
[01:56.720 --> 02:04.860]  proposals. I'm Luis, the CTO and co-founder of LochaMesh. I would like to show you a demo
[02:04.860 --> 02:11.460]  running the Monero graphical user interface and the Monero daemon in the same network,
[02:11.460 --> 02:19.200]  in this case in the LochaMesh network. As you can see in the picture, here is the environment.
[02:19.800 --> 02:26.980]  On the right side, you can see the server
[02:29.860 --> 02:39.620]  with two network interfaces. One is connected to the internet and the other to LochaMesh.
[02:40.820 --> 02:48.700]  The Monero daemon is running on this server. The network interface for the LochaMesh
[02:49.800 --> 03:03.020]  is this one. And on the left side is my laptop represented as n1 using the launchpad. The
[03:03.020 --> 03:10.560]  launchpad is this red bar, as you can see in the webcam, and this red bar is the network interface
[03:10.560 --> 03:24.400]  for the LochaMesh using this address. Between them, we have a node whose network address we
[03:24.400 --> 03:31.360]  don't know, but we don't care either because it just helps to find the path between my laptop
[03:31.880 --> 03:37.540]  and the server. Shut off the other microphone. You have two of them, I think.
[03:38.800 --> 03:42.520]  Or is it... it is down, right? I don't know if it's...
[03:43.500 --> 03:44.520]  What?
[03:45.100 --> 03:49.240]  No, check the other microphone in case it is in the other computer.
[03:49.420 --> 03:51.640]  I don't know if it's working or not.
[03:51.680 --> 03:59.160]  It's noisy? Noisy? No, it's closer to the microphone in the other computer.
[03:59.160 --> 04:01.600]  Okay, okay, continue. Yeah, sorry.
[04:01.600 --> 04:02.260]  Sorry.
[04:03.370 --> 04:05.440]  Okay.
[04:07.930 --> 04:10.000]  What?
[04:13.900 --> 04:24.730]  Between the laptop and the Monero, there is a node, so we can start
[04:29.490 --> 04:39.300]  with the terminals. On the right window,
[04:40.260 --> 04:44.000]  I have an open terminal to the server running the Monero
[04:46.380 --> 04:53.460]  server, and I have configured the network interface for the LochaMesh.
[04:54.300 --> 05:10.340]  And we can check the interface. The interface is this one.
[05:10.940 --> 05:15.660]  And in the left side, I need to check.
[05:20.850 --> 05:25.590]  Okay, it's correct.
[05:25.870 --> 05:26.830]  Okay.
[05:28.530 --> 05:34.030]  Before executing the Monero GUI, or the Monero graphical user interface, we must
[05:34.030 --> 05:40.110]  make sure we have the configuration file ready with the server address.
[05:40.450 --> 05:42.010]  This is the Monero
[05:43.470 --> 05:51.970]  conf file. Okay, this is the address of the Monero server, and this is the port.
[05:52.870 --> 05:55.010]  So, we can
[05:57.490 --> 05:59.970]  start the GUI.
[06:07.290 --> 06:08.470]  Need to check
[06:10.910 --> 06:50.810]  the ways the wallet is synchronizing. This can take a while.
[06:55.280 --> 06:57.180]  And it's ready.
[06:58.720 --> 07:07.440]  So, the next step is Randy, can you send me some Monero, please?
[07:08.060 --> 07:13.920]  Sure. So, now that you have your wallet synchronized over the LochaMesh to a remote Monero
[07:13.920 --> 07:24.560]  GUI, he can now create an address to get payments without having to have any connection to the
[07:24.560 --> 07:31.020]  internet. He's only connected to the LochaMesh through the toolkit device. In this case, he's
[07:31.020 --> 07:37.940]  using a Launchpad, which is for development. But you can see one of the revisions of the
[07:37.940 --> 07:47.560]  hardware we are doing there also in the webcam. So, he's now going to share with me
[07:48.620 --> 08:05.490]  Monero address to get payment. So, what we're... exactly, copy and share.
[08:05.490 --> 08:11.570]  What we are going to see now is that I, myself, who are connected to the internet,
[08:11.790 --> 08:21.050]  I'm going to broadcast a transaction to the receiving address Luis has shared with me.
[08:22.250 --> 08:29.990]  And the Monero daemon, which Luis is running on server, connected to the internet and also to
[08:29.990 --> 08:39.510]  LochaMesh, will see the transaction that I'm making on the internet. I'm going to set this to
[08:41.030 --> 08:53.380]  a good number so you can see it. Okay. Send. Now, my transaction is being sent over the internet.
[08:53.380 --> 09:05.590]  It's done. Enter password. Okay. Sent. Now, what is going to happen is that the Monero d running
[09:05.590 --> 09:12.090]  on the daemon that Luis has connected to both the internet and the LochaMesh, which is a peer-to-peer
[09:12.090 --> 09:21.870]  mesh network, is going to see this transaction on the Monero mempool. And it knows that this
[09:21.870 --> 09:28.570]  transaction belongs to this user who is connected to the Monero d over the LochaMesh only.
[09:28.570 --> 09:36.630]  So, now when the transaction has been broadcasted to the internet and the Monero d running on the
[09:36.630 --> 09:45.390]  server sees it, it's going to populate this or share this information with the user.
[09:48.650 --> 10:06.480]  Transactions. Yeah, it's sent. Let's see. So...
[10:07.000 --> 10:15.340]  Well, you can see there. There, you can see in the background of the user interface
[10:15.340 --> 10:22.380]  that in the terminal, you can see that the interface is communicating with the Monero d
[10:22.380 --> 10:30.190]  over the LochaMesh only. And now it has received the incoming transaction to its wallet.
[10:31.140 --> 10:37.780]  And this information, he has received it over the LochaMesh. The LochaMesh is a mesh peer-to-peer
[10:37.780 --> 10:49.740]  decentralized mesh network that only needs another node in range. So, it needs to be in range in order
[10:49.740 --> 10:56.740]  to be able to be part of the same mesh. And when there are going to exist more mesh
[10:57.580 --> 11:06.620]  isolated in cities or distributed in different countries, what we will have is bridges or long
[11:07.500 --> 11:14.940]  range distant radio that will connect one mesh with another over the internet as a bridge or
[11:14.940 --> 11:22.540]  gateway or also with long range radio. So, we're going to connect cities with each other and we'll
[11:22.540 --> 11:29.960]  have this mesh networks not isolated anymore in each city, but interconnected to make a huge
[11:29.960 --> 11:39.880]  network of devices that are capable of delivering messages, data, and information like in this case
[11:41.340 --> 11:46.800]  all over the world. So, once everything is running inside the mesh and you won't need to go
[11:46.800 --> 11:53.700]  to the internet anymore because miners will be inside the LochaMesh, servers will be running
[11:53.700 --> 12:01.540]  inside the LochaMesh, and Monero remote nodes will also be there, wallets, everything will run there.
[12:01.540 --> 12:07.200]  You won't need to use the internet anymore. What is the advantage of this is that, as you can see,
[12:07.200 --> 12:14.640]  you can have a developer launchpad that you can build yourself in your house and you won't need
[12:14.640 --> 12:22.400]  to be identified or KYC by anyone in order to be able to use the LochaMesh. So, we are making
[12:23.020 --> 12:29.400]  a custom hardware and this is important for us because... well, this custom hardware that
[12:29.400 --> 12:36.860]  you can see there on the revision hardware that we have is the Terpial and it's made out of
[12:36.860 --> 12:42.080]  pieces and components that you can buy online today. So, you can make your do-it-yourself version
[12:42.080 --> 12:48.440]  of it with all the shell parts too. So, if you do this and you do it in your house and you build it
[12:48.440 --> 12:54.920]  yourself, you won't need to identify yourself or share your ID or scan your face with any
[12:54.920 --> 13:02.840]  service provider, ISPs, or government in order to be able to communicate and make use of applications
[13:03.920 --> 13:10.940]  in this LochaMesh network. So, it is important for us to make the custom hardware
[13:10.940 --> 13:19.420]  because that enables us to develop the firmwares from scratch in order to make them
[13:19.420 --> 13:25.600]  open source. So, in order to be able to make it public, available for everyone to use, so that you
[13:25.600 --> 13:31.680]  can build your own or buy the ones that we are going to sell, instead of using already existing
[13:31.680 --> 13:39.420]  equipment for radio communications, which currently most of them, or if not all of them,
[13:39.420 --> 13:45.440]  depend on closed source tools for flashing and proprietary firmwares. So, the two devices
[13:45.440 --> 13:56.840]  communicate with each other over radio in the ISM unlicensed bands, 915 MHz and 868 MHz.
[13:56.840 --> 14:04.760]  The routing protocol that we are building is based on AODV version 2, and we have two IPv6
[14:04.760 --> 14:11.880]  support. So, any application software server, which currently is capable of working with IPv6
[14:12.440 --> 14:21.220]  address in the IP protocol, can run on the LochaMesh without any extra work. So, Luis is going
[14:21.220 --> 14:29.020]  to show you, for example, SSH access, web servers, Monero block sync, not only the wallet itself,
[14:29.020 --> 14:36.500]  is going to work inside the LochaMesh. Messaging apps, remote nodes, you will be able to access
[14:37.000 --> 14:42.100]  your computer over the LochaMesh without having to use the internet. So, you won't expose your
[14:42.100 --> 14:48.580]  house IP address. You won't expose your phone IP address, which is connected to your identity.
[14:48.580 --> 14:54.260]  You will be able to use the LochaMesh to do all this. So, now, Luis is going to show you how
[14:54.900 --> 15:01.600]  you can run a web server in a computer and access this website from another computer
[15:01.600 --> 15:06.740]  over the LochaMesh, completely off the grid, without having to use the internet at all.
[15:08.080 --> 15:11.900]  Very basic web server.
[15:24.040 --> 15:45.070]  And I need to launch the browser. Here is the browser.
[15:50.340 --> 15:54.900]  Here is the address of the server and the port.
[15:54.900 --> 16:09.570]  Okay, that is it. So, this is an example of how you can run a web server in a computer,
[16:10.690 --> 16:17.890]  a server, or a Raspberry Pi in your house, and you can access to that service or that computer
[16:17.890 --> 16:27.330]  over SSH, web, HTTP, and you can synchronize your wallet. You can synchronize your
[16:28.150 --> 16:34.430]  your full node, even over the LochaMesh, in a peer-to-peer decentralized mesh network that is
[16:34.430 --> 16:40.890]  private and information transmitted, the data transmitted, can be encrypted because we are
[16:40.890 --> 16:49.490]  using the unlicensed ISM bands, which allows you to encrypt the information that you are sending.
[16:49.490 --> 16:55.530]  So, it's also private. That's why it is so important for us that the Monero community
[16:55.530 --> 17:05.950]  has decided, an individual has decided, to support us through the CCS support crowdfunding
[17:05.950 --> 17:13.470]  method that they have. And we understand that the Monero community is a privacy-focused community,
[17:13.470 --> 17:19.750]  and we are also, too. So, we are not only enabling people to use Bitcoin and Monero
[17:19.750 --> 17:26.670]  without internet, we are also letting people continue being in contact with their loved ones
[17:26.670 --> 17:35.630]  during disaster-hit countries, for example, or censorship, internet shutdown, and blockades,
[17:35.630 --> 17:43.690]  or infrastructure failures. So, this is more a project, a community-driven project,
[17:43.690 --> 17:53.550]  which is open source. And we invite you all in the community of makers, hackers, and everyone who
[17:53.550 --> 18:04.670]  likes the privacy and the freedom of using your money to join us on our GitHub, which is
[18:04.670 --> 18:16.610]  github.com. And we invite you to join us in the Lucha por la Locha Libre, which is the fight for
[18:16.610 --> 18:24.970]  the freedom of money. So, in this demo, we wanted to show you what we are working on. As I said,
[18:24.970 --> 18:32.170]  you can build the do-it-yourself version of the devices yourself, but we also are going to sell
[18:32.970 --> 18:41.990]  the 2PL devices, which is a battery-based mobile hotspot that is going to give you access over
[18:41.990 --> 18:50.850]  Wi-Fi. It is a hotspot which has a Wi-Fi AP access point that you can access with up to four
[18:51.450 --> 18:58.670]  mobile phones. And you can also connect it to a server, like in this example, through a USB cable.
[18:58.670 --> 19:06.770]  So, in a range, if you have enough density and there are enough devices around you, you will be
[19:06.770 --> 19:15.330]  able to chat and make payments and sync your full node over the Lucha Mesh. What we are also working
[19:15.330 --> 19:24.910]  on is on the radio model itself. So, the radio model that is going to be welded in the 2PL devices
[19:24.910 --> 19:31.550]  is going to be available in other formats. So, you can use a Raspberry Pi hat, for example,
[19:31.550 --> 19:38.310]  and add it to a Raspberry Pi. So, it is going to be able to communicate over the Lucha Mesh with
[19:38.310 --> 19:45.110]  others in order to offer services, for example, a web server or a wallet sync or an Electron server
[19:45.110 --> 19:52.190]  or a remote Monero D that others can use. And you will be able to get paid for that. So,
[19:52.190 --> 20:00.950]  you will be able to get paid using Monero, using RPC Pay, the RPC Pay feature or Bitcoin or the
[20:00.950 --> 20:07.650]  Lightning Network, and you're going to get payments for the services you are providing to others
[20:07.650 --> 20:14.350]  inside the Lucha Mesh as a way to incentivize you for running these services inside the Lucha Mesh.
[20:14.350 --> 20:21.530]  So, you will be able to build the devices yourself. You will be able to buy the radio models that
[20:21.530 --> 20:27.710]  we're going to build, or you can buy the more consumer-ready for newbies device, which is the
[20:27.710 --> 20:33.970]  Turpill device. And so, you can have all your family, relatives, and friends have a Turpill
[20:33.970 --> 20:39.550]  device that they can carry around with them in order for them to be able to chat with you or
[20:39.550 --> 20:45.910]  use the services you are providing to them from your house on your Lucha Mesh-enabled computer.
[20:46.690 --> 20:53.390]  So, this is what we wanted to show you, and this is what we've been working
[20:53.390 --> 21:00.550]  on for the past two years. And thanks to other communities like the Monero community itself,
[21:00.550 --> 21:09.230]  we've been able to do this mostly on donations and grants that we have received. But we also have a
[21:09.230 --> 21:18.290]  company, which is the hardware company, that we want to make devices in order to sell them for
[21:18.290 --> 21:23.070]  the common users that are not going to build them, but they are going to buy them in order to be
[21:23.550 --> 21:30.230]  a node inside the Mesh and be able to provide relay messages for others and maybe get
[21:30.910 --> 21:38.750]  payments for providing that service too. So, if you are interested in supporting us,
[21:38.750 --> 21:45.670]  you can make a donation or you can join us on GitHub and help us test the devices,
[21:45.670 --> 21:51.930]  the DevKit devices that we expect to have pretty soon. Or you can pre-order
[21:52.430 --> 22:03.010]  the tour device that we expect to have ready for shipment early 2021. Thank you.
[22:03.850 --> 22:09.070]  Thank you, everyone. Luis? Thank you very much, everyone.
[22:11.930 --> 22:18.670]  Okay. Thank you. Hope you enjoy the rest of the DevCon. Hope you enjoyed all this weekend,
[22:18.670 --> 22:24.810]  which has been very interesting and exciting. And hope to see you again. If you have any questions,
[22:24.810 --> 22:34.950]  you can reach out to us at locha.io, L-O-C-H-A dot I-O. And you can find us on Twitter and also
[22:34.950 --> 22:42.890]  on GitHub, as said previously. On Twitter, we are locha underscore I-O. Thank you, everyone.
[22:42.890 --> 22:46.150]  Thank you for attending. Thank you.