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Are you saying China/Russia got their hands on Military tech by hacking?
This is a prevalent notion in the west. I’m sure there is some truth to it. In the long run, it seems like a great way to underestimate an opponent.
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How will you achieve consensus with years-long communication delays?
The base layer consensus protocol would run at decade speed and would just be used to net out long-term/long-distance differences; most transactions would be on higher-layer systems that settle faster. Charles Stross explains this stuff in Neptune's Brood .
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I think the thing that you're missing is that there's no shortage of physical space right here? Said differently, why not build that satellite, load it up, and instead of launching it.... put it in the closet. Get it out when you need it. What advantages does that launch have?
I believe he's implying the use of the satellite as a repeater and the intervening space as a delay line I do not think it's viable in any sense with launch costs but in a hypothetical scenario where you had something 20 light minutes away with a channel that had no better use you certainly could buffer 40 minutes of data on the channel It is limited here not by the availability of space but the ability to collimate…
Truly a sci-fi concept, inasmuch as I have no idea of the science involved, but I can still imagine some scenario where such valuable data becomes committed to eternal space.
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The base layer consensus protocol would run at decade speed and would just be used to net out long-term/long-distance differences; most transactions would be on higher-layer systems that settle faster. Charles Stross explains this stuff in Neptune's Brood .
How convenient that there's a fictional space opera that can verify your predictions of the future.
I've always wondered about the feasibility of using space for temporary/short-term storage needs. I remember a time when, as a junior developer, I'd log into operations, and hand the operator my tape reel with my work for the day - and she'd go off, mount the spool, and start the streaming, until my files were available in local storage for a few hours, and then .. when logging out, I'd have the operator re-stream th…
Okay, so let's say you get a really good signal between your satellites and manage 1mbps at interplanetary distances. Even if you get a super cheap launch you just spent tens of millions of dollars on storing... 300 megabytes.