Since it is Christmas, and Merry Christmas to everyone as we celebrate Jesus Birth!
Lets talk about Biblepay, where we are and where we can go in 2025-2026. I am actively writing the roadmap backing doc so we will have more details very soon also but in the mean time lets discuss RDP, sidechains, gospel features, social media, and the move to be 100% decentralized in one year.
First RDP. The use case is this: Some people have dynamic IPs, some are behind firewalls and some do not want to configure their network to allow traffic in on certain ports that would allow RDP (IE the ability for you to remote into your PC and control it, or into your work machine, or into your server and control it).
This is where the BBP network comes in. Using OpenZiti technology we can create a BiblePay mesh network that will allow you to remote in to your PC even without opening the extenal port 3389, and without having a public IP. And what is exciting is this is decentralized.
Before discussing the RDP tech, lets talk about how the software runs. We have something called BBP Extensions, that can be launched from the wallet. This is a list of BiblePay programs that can run on your machine, and as they are enhanced, the extensions automatically upgrade themselves. So when you launch BBP Extensions, you really see a list of programs that we wrote that do specific functions and as releases occur they upgrade themselves.
One of the programs is BBPRDP.
In this case when you launch BBPRDP, the program will create a BBP keypair, one that designates the machines public network address (the BBP pubkey). The private key is used to generate the public key and to store cold wallet funds for the service (currently the service is free, but we can do a pay-as-you-go plan in the future if this takes off, IE a certain amount say $5 a month or depending on the bytes sent over the BBP network, per month for use).
You can then create a virtual network between two BBP addresses (you must own them both). The bytes sent and received are encrypted, so there is no way for anyone on the network to see or decrypt those bytes (those are using the bbp account connected to the ziti overlay, which is private to you).
The machine guid and public and private key are stored on your own machine. The connection records are stored on our sidechain (so that the remote host can see and accept connections created by you). Once the network conduit is started, those bytes are encrypted and sent through one volunteer sanctuary (one of the temples) and delivered to your private network.
The latest release, Hamans-Hanging 0.21.9 now has BBPExtensions v1.26 in it.
Note this was just released today. In order to use this software, please re-download the windows wallet from
www.biblepay.org | Wallet.
Once you launch it you can then click "BBP Extensions" from the left menu.
Wiki Guide:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/RDP