.@travisk says the biggest bottleneck to scaling Atoms is physically retrofitting decades-old mining equipment. "Let's say, we want to get a bunch of machines that are in the Amazon up and running. I've got to ship a bunch of sensors, a bunch of compute, and a bunch of equipment and mechanical systems so that a team can then go install it." "But this is a new place. How does this machine work properly in this new place? We need to calibrate it and make sure it's safe." "There's this very regimented process to make sure everything's going exactly as planned and people are exactly where they're supposed to be because otherwise weird things happen on a mining site." "So you have to go from that to running an autonomous mining operation. It's just a very different thing."