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would that help them though? i mean it appears to me they are already as close as possible to avoid latency and use microwave links and stuff so that is pretty
by mercora 6y ago
would that help them though? i mean it appears to me they are already as close as possible to avoid latency and use microwave links and stuff so that is pretty hard to beat i guess. the only thing i can easily imagine being beneficial is getting information across the globe faster but then i lack the skills to see how one profits from that, ie. being closer would still be better, no?
- virgilp 6y agoArbitration. If you can see an asset being traded cheaper in Australia than in the US 10ms before everybody else does - you basically pocket the difference at 0 risk.
- paranoidrobot 6y agoMark Handley has done a bunch of videos analysing this on his channel[0]. The TLDR is that there is a lot of room for Starlink to beat existing terrestrial options IF they can get the laser links working on-orbit. This video[1] shows estimates using what was known about proposed configurations in 2018 [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-k1j7M2-hBfXeECd9YAQ_g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-k1j7M2-hBfXeECd9YAQ_g [1] https://youtu.be/QEIUdMiColU?t=237 https://youtu.be/QEIUdMiColU?t=237