Topic: The severing of international Internet cables. - page 2. (Read 312 times)

It's a really good question, last I checked, starlink was quite expensive, I can't remember the exact amount it was then, but what I did remember was that, I had the intention of buying one, but after I saw the price, i withing myself acknowledged that it's not affordable to me at that moment and even now, and this is even outside the monthly subscription.

And back to the op discussion, it is really annoying, all through the week, the entire cities in Nigeria, as well as ghana and some other African countries had suffered a very severe poor internet connection, to the extent that even accessing this forum was a very huge challenge for some of us.
I am not quite knowledgeable when it comes to how things like this works, but with all sincerely, having an alternative would be really a good idea, for what if one day, governments around the world wake up and decide to pull the plug on internet, just to stop bitcoin - very low chances of happening though, but just imagining.

This can truly affect the use of bitcoin by the people since it involves the use of the internet in most cases to perform a bitcoin transaction and the network failure seems to be going beyond the limit, but we must not also learn to attribute everything happening the negative way to US being the cause, what i heard some saying was the international cable while some say it has to do with the fallen of one of the 4G satellite or cable as the case may be


This may not actually be a serious problem since what was been encountered is just a minor case whereby the network becomes more difficult to access and not that its completely gone and inaccessible, i think it may only take a few more days to get all fixed, anything centralized could not be a solution to this on a long term, but we want to believe the governments are working on something we will all b e exposed to later.

This illustrates the point. Surely it would be possible to have a local mempool to accept transactions. If a country has one or more large mining complexes, then they could select transactions from that pool, and connect to the blockchain via expensive alternative networds. This could result in confirnmation times of around a day or so, depending on the success of the local miners. However, this would be better than no access to the blockchain for the majority of Bitcoin users.

We must face the fact that we are in a period of banking, political and economic turmoil. There is also increasing military activity to change the status of many countries. For example, who would have thought that Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso would have become major influences in Africa, The US has strengthened Putin, and as a consequence, it has made the Russian military into possibly the world's strongest army. Their economy is booming, and they are gaining an enhance reputation in the world. The US has lost its war in Ukrain, and its support of the actions of the Zionists is turning many populatiions against them. They are neglecting US infrastructure and the population in an attempt to posture against China, Russian, Iran and other countries. The attack on the Yemen may have initiated the cutting of Internet cables. It has certainly caused massive disruptions in shipping, and this will affect the US significantly. As individuals, we need to plan ahead to enable us to weather the economic and political storms.

How many investors in bitcoins can really afford the Starlink? and its monthly subscription?

Without a good internet connection Bitcoin users will face some issues. Internet cables are most important for everyone who is using internet and if those undersea cables start getting affected then the whole communication system will be non-responsive. Those cables are planted undersea and because of them we are able to use internet effectively, even wireless internet is dependent on such cables. I'm talking about traditional wireless internet setups like 3G, 4G, and 5G.

I believe we already have good alternative which is Starlink. It could be a good alternative for us when the cable issues make internet communications slow or not responsive. Starlink works via Satellite and it's not dependent on those undersea internet cables. It also works well in remote areas, the only problem with Starlink is the high cost of the connectivity. Starlink's connections are fast with low latency and that can be useful for transactions when traditional networks get slow or they stop working fully. I believe the Starlink could be another good alternative when traditional networks stop responding due to cable severing.

What belligerent actions of the u.s. are you talking about? Intercontinental communications is so important to everyone individually and also to countries and businesses as well, i don't see the benefit of a deliberate act to weaken it by any party.
I don't think internet connection is a major problem for BTC users, i know BTC cannot function without the internet, but other than some areas in some third world countries that lack electricity and internet connection, most bitcoiners can connect to the network just fine. If the issue of faster payments is raised, then i believe what we should be discussing is scalability solutions.

Lightening network is not an alternative to internet connection needed for communication between servers.

Wireless radio signals like LoRa could be a alternative solution down the road, as I'm sure similar networks would be launched with time.

I'm starting to see more and more reports of Internet cables being severed. We have always had a few fail as a result of accidental damage, but the bellicose actions of the US seem to be leading us into a period of deliberate damage to weaken intercontinental communications. This could damage Bitcoin usage. It occured to me that one possibility would be to have a number of national networks similar to the Lighting network. This would provided faster payments, and allow slower transfers to and from the Bitcoin blockchain to become less significant. It also gives rise to the possibility that LoRa communications could be used as an alternative to the Internet as it gains in popularity.