Well the latency is because of the speed of light - Mars and Venus are usually more than 10 light minutes away from Earth. But certainly the better the equipment, the lower the latency, within range of the center of hash. Technically I think the network can spread far beyond the 10 minute light minute center, but at some point dead branches on the Merkle tree (yeee am I remembering this term correctly? Lol) will get problematic cuz the time to fetch the correct blocks adds to the latency the further out you get. IF I'm saying that correctly... I guess its simpler to say, I've seen blocks take 2 hours to be found, so Mars can compete for those.

Being able to nullify gravity would certainly open up space travel... I just don't know how. But I think we should build a solar civilization even if we can't solve all the problems yet. An orbital ring seems like a good place to start 🤔

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yes but it only takes maybe 200kbit or so to have one node on mars synced in realtime to earth, so a single 100mbit connection would probably let them share the chain

i'm pretty sure nikola tesla was scratching at the surface of how to do gravity nullification

i'm also pretty sure that gravity is an effect created by electrons in a quantum state we don't understand yet, so what i'm saying is essentially gravity nullification is about creating a field around an object that deflects this kind of particle, without that resistance to motion created by gravity you have the ability to travel a lot faster, this doesn't mean you can travel faster than light (that would be teleportation), but if you could get to mars in a day that would be sufficient i think

Other planets can share the chain but can't mine it. They can send their tx to earth and someone will eventually include these in a block. There goes the decentralized nature 😂

A tangle like chain tho, like IOTA, could work for interplanetary stuff. Food for thought

Oh you were saying the future telecomms or whatever its called will use quantum entanglement? I missed that detail... Yeah, I guess they will. That could make the whole plot I was imagining kinda silly.