Quote from: HeRetiK on Today at 01:29:27 PM

If you strive for pure decentralization and autonomy on the network level you can't stop at mesh networks though. Mesh networks still rely on centrally controlled undersea cables and / or satellites to stay globally connected. You'd need physical alternative infrastructure to connect the world's continents.

That being said, running on centralized ISP infrastructure does no harm to the permissionlessness of a cryptocurrency, given that its network requirements are modest enough to reliably work on mesh networks or other alternatives. Put differently, an off-road vehicle being able to drive on regular roads does not make for a lesser off-road vehicle.

Regardless of that there's various efforts by Bitcoiners to circumvent centralized ISPs. There's Bitcoiner's using mesh networks, as mentioned by ETFbitcoin. There's Blockstream satellites (ie. an example of intercontinental physical alternative infrastructure -- run by a centralized entity obviously, but if Blockstream can put Bitcoin satellites into space, so can other private entities). There's even been efforts on Bitcoin transactions via radiowave transmission -- and that's honestly as decentralized as it gets.

Yeah, but the Mesh Network is still free, secure and decentralized. The cables are not part of the Mesh Network. Al though sharing a common access point to the world wide web the Mesh Network is still free, secure and decentralized. Mesh is the obvious path of development to a private, secure decentralized internet development. Maybe you should consider ditching Bitcoin There's much more interesting and potential proof mechanisms that PoW.