Well the latency is because of the speed of light - Mars and Venus are usually more than 10 light minutes away from Earth. But certainly the better the equipment, the lower the latency, within range of the center of hash. Technically I think the network can spread far beyond the 10 minute light minute center, but at some point dead branches on the Merkle tree (yeee am I remembering this term correctly? Lol) will get problematic cuz the time to fetch the correct blocks adds to the latency the further out you get. IF I'm saying that correctly... I guess its simpler to say, I've seen blocks take 2 hours to be found, so Mars can compete for those.
Being able to nullify gravity would certainly open up space travel... I just don't know how. But I think we should build a solar civilization even if we can't solve all the problems yet. An orbital ring seems like a good place to start 🤔
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