Communications company Viasat has now lost 81% of its fixed broadband subscribers since SpaceX started offering @Starlink services to the public in 2020. Viasat now has 115,000 subscribers in the US – a decrease from 603,000 reported in Sept 2020. In Q2 2026 alone, they lost another 15,000 subs. Viasat plans to start serving users from its next-generation F2 satellite next month, which they say is able to deliver 100+ Mbps download speed, but latency is still expected to be 10-20x worse than Starlink's satellites.

When communication costs fell to near zero, the volume of interactions didn't just grow, it multiplied by orders of magnitude. Circle's thesis is that blockchain does the same for the movement of money. Heath Tarbert on how that connects to the mission behind the company.

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