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Are you referring to the balloon kit ? Or the CDN/DNS?
Both of those have wide use cases and direct demand. BTC is one of hundreds of protocols and software platforms that can use it .
Was thinking of the balloon -- not obvious to me who would want that besides (in theory) bitcoiners, or blockchains hell-bent on preventing chain splits and the like. Would be interested in pointers / documents / whatever to learn more.
Well, think of the balloon as a replacement for a satellite. Think of all the things satellites do, and what the world would look like if the same functionality could be delivered 100-1000x cheaper and could be landed / take off again.
The balloon is payload agnostic. Sensing, surveillance, internet are payloads we are in talks with potential customers for today. HFT is another area.
This is really cool. Seems like a thing that people would buy for a collective benefit for the general good of btc (e.g., to help make the network resilient) vs as a product they use to earn money. Is that how you're thinking of it, or do you imagine actual use-demand?