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 nostr international backbone is under the sea #factstr
As of early 2024, we believe there are nearly 1.4 million kilometers of submarine cables in service globally. 
20,000 kilometer Asia America Gateway cable. LONGEST!!!
https://image.nostr.build/4944d6a7d921fb40ac99c600c49ff7a817dff292e191302de2b7a208de4ae131.png
Content providers such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon are major investors in new cable. The amount of capacity deployed by private network operators – like these content providers – has outpaced internet backbone operators in recent years. Statistics released by U.S. FCC indicate that satellites account for just 0.37% of all U.S. international capacity. Cable capacities vary a lot. Typically, newer cables are capable of carrying more data than cables laid 15 years ago. The new MAREA cable is capable of carrying 224 Tbps. common causes of faults - damage to submarine cables comes from human activity, primarily fishing and anchoring https://image.nostr.build/bb37973216c75cab6a5cbc80545723a1e9fea433cd95774d61f9791ac0862b0d.png 
 This is why as cool as the current internet is, it can never be the solution for truly censor-free, decentralized, permissionless communications of any type, Bitcoin included.

We need P2P solutions, even if we lose all this fancy functionality we have today -- mainly the ultra-high speeds that the current centralized, permissioned, censored infrastructure gives us. 
 ~ 80% bitcoin's mainnet + 90% LN runs from 10 largest cloud providers / data centers  - so only RENTERS are decentralized that's all
blockstream satellites carry less than 1% bitcoin mainnet traffic excluding node sync Elon n DOGE-NODES rides on his starlink !!!
physical gold more decentralized planet wide ownership but cannot be teleported like bitcoin tx broadcast.
bitcoin DECENTRALIZED = mythology of maximalists for now getting worst maybe 
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