Just thought I'd throw this out there:
Overheard on IRC: ATCSECURE: "there is a new LTE update coming which XC will be leveraging for ad-hoc [physical] mesh networking via direct p2p."
If only people realize how big this is... think Firechat, but 10x better... because it doesn't use bluetooth which is limited to 30-100 feet. LTE is many times greater distance than that. Imagine even if you don't have internet and you can still chat with people in the forest using LTE radio built into your phone....
Yes, it will be a massive development.
It's one thing to have an ad hoc virtual mesh network (which XC has already).
It's another thing entirely for the physical hardware of a network to form a mesh. This restructures some pretty long-standing power relations.