How Crypto Fixes the Internet Monopoly | Neil Cha, DAWN & Andrena
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So the part that where we like to stand out and seeing their ability to stand out versus even 5 g and even something like Starlink is we all have cool point to multipoint coverage, but what we have is point to multipoint, multi gigabit coverage. And that is really kind of the big threshold here is we can do that at speeds that are exceeding that of existing home Internet connections, so you can distribute it very effectively throughout the market.
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Yeah. Let's do it. Okay. Let's not talk crypto. Let's pause on that. Let's talk, wireless ISPs and Wi Fi. How does this how does the system work? How does the whole what is the supply chain of of of Wi Fi and ISPs and, enterprise Wi Fi and and routers? Like, tell us about how this whole system works.
Yeah. So it's funny because I remember, like, you know, as I've gone through the process of pitching what we've been doing, it's been really cool to be able to explain this whole thing to people because it's kind of like this hidden world of digital infrastructure that we don't many of us don't really know about. Right? The entire world is just super connected, and we kinda take it for granted. But behind the scenes, if you kind of, as you said, begin to tease apart and understand the supply chain, you get to see a really interesting landscape here. Crown Castle was, like, really my first fora
So the so I'm in New York. So the regional providers are like Verizon and Spectrum and things like that. They get it from the tier 2, and the tier ones are the ones that are doing the the crazy technical work, like laying the fibers and the undersea fibers and the data centers and all that kind of stuff. What is the problem with the market as it exists today?
So the biggest problem, and I think this is one that we can kind of all relate with, is that Internet prices are high, and there's not a lot of competition. Right? You're in a scenario where like, I remember when I first moved to Princeton, even there is localized redlining. So, you know, they're technically these providers are taking up markets and further subdividing them in a way where competition is just you know, I don't wanna I don't care. It's hard to say if it's directly artificially restricted, but But you're in a scenario where providers kind of like to take their own little corners
Yeah. That's a really good point on Starlink 1. And I wanna double click on this idea of, like, why hasn't it been tried before, and get your thoughts there. Because Yeah.
So I I'd say, you know, the disrupting the last mile, I think that's like if you kind of ask the folks in, like, networking research ever since the nineties, people have always been, like, opining on, like, what's the best way to do it. Right? Like, we can see that from the cable TV days now to the Internet days, that monopolistic trend has always been there and
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