SpaceX just put a flying saucer in orbit, and it is shaped wrong on purpose.
Starfall is a flat disk, 10 feet across and 2.5 feet tall, built to fall back through the atmosphere at 7.8 kilometers a second and live. The trick is the shape. A sharp nose would slice the air and pin the shockwave to its tip, pouring the heat straight onto the vehicle until it melts. A blunt disk cannot cut the air at all. It piles the air into a wall in front of itself, the shockwave tears loose and stands off ahea...
#opg $OPG A small thing caught my attention recently.
I noticed that some node operators seemed more interested in staking discussions than infrastructure discussions.
At first, that felt backwards.
If the network depends on compute, hosting, and verification, shouldn't conversations revolve around performance? Yet whenever incentives changed, activity changed almost immediately. Wallets moved. Delegations shifted. New participants appeared.
The infrastructure stayed the same.
The behavior ...