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runawaybottle on April 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

If you drop beacon towers along the way to maintain bandwidth, why wouldn’t this work?

jerrysievert on April 16, 2021 | [–]

the speed of light (or radio waves) doesn't become any faster with beacons. it's latency that's the problem.

WrtCdEvrydy on April 16, 2021 | [–]

latency and bandwidth are two different things... speed of light is a constant.

mrits on April 16, 2021 | [–]

these beacons are in worm holes, obviously

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