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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by joyeuse6701 on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:53PM (#6511185)
I wonder if you could pool money to have spacex or some other company launch a satellite/set of servers into orbit as opposed to some country somewhere. That'd be pretty expensive for them to take (physically) out of service then!
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by pavel_lishin on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:14PM (#6511320)
Maybe, but probably not as expensive as you launching it in the first place as a percentage of money involved. I'd bet there are a few old birds up there that are still under control, but not serving any particular purpose. Steer it into a collision course, and bam, your server just became a cloud of garbage orbiting the Earth.

On the other hand, that would seriously piss off the rest of the international community, especially if the two satellites were high enough to clutter up existing satellite traffic.

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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by jaredstenquist on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:11PM (#6511304)
The US government could easily destroy said satellite.
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by ballard on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:19PM (#6511353)
Several countries have ASATs. There are probably other ways to destroy/disable satellites. How much would it cost?
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