Starlink's speed tests may look impressive, but experts say SpaceX's satellite-internet project is unlikely to win any federal subsidies

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On 8/28/20, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> 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.