On 8/28/20, jim bell <[email protected]> wrote: > "Starlink's speed tests may look impressive, but experts say SpaceX's > satellite-internet project is unlikely to win any federal subsidies > "https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-beta-speedtest-results-bandwidth-ping-latency-fcc-rdof-2020-8 > Jim Bell's comment: > I doubt SpaceX NEEDS any Federal subsidies for Starlink. If it is a working > system (and these reports seem to show that it works well) then it will > provide competition to the incumbent wire- or fiber Internet services we > have been locked into for too long.
If they accepted an assortment of major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin_Cash, Monero, Zcash, etc and enabled fully prepaid service and user owned prepaid hardware, they might get a lot more customers around the world from those. More customers = less subsidies. And accepting cryptocurrency is a big marketing win that matches Starlink's tech image.
