whoami / founder / builder / operator
davidotero
I built Distributed Ledger Technologies to be checked, not trusted. Every claim here points to something you can verify yourself: code you can read, a public chain you can audit, a genesis block anyone can recompute. I design it, write it, run it, and answer for it personally.
DL / GLOBAL NETWORKONLINE
PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTUREEST. 2020
How real satellite networks circle the planet: 48 satellites in six near-polar rings, modeled on Iridium, about 780 km up, each lapping Earth roughly every 100 minutes. Each keeps laser links to the satellites ahead, behind and in the next ring, so data hops around the world without touching the ground; near the poles those side links let go, and where two rings pass in opposite directions (the seam) they never link. Each city talks to the highest satellite in its sky and hands off as it sets. The three on the outer ring are geostationary, 35,786 km up, parked over fixed points on the equator. Altitudes compressed and motion sped up to fit the screen.