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Re:Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 sa... by csomar on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:31AM (#26168237)
This was actually one of the reasons Bitcoin Core devs were opposed to raising the block limit. Bitcoin requires very little bandwidth (around 1.5mb/10minutes).

You can actually get the Bitcoin blockchain from Satellite for free: https://blockstream.com/satellite/ However, as I understand it, it only allows receiving and not transmitting data.

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Re:Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 sa... by gruez on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:22PM (#26169671)
>However, as I understand it, it only allows receiving and not transmitting data.

what about something like shortwave radio? You probably can't have everyone transmitting at the same time, but a few stations around to world can broadcast/relay transactions across pockets of connectivity.

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