I wanted to put up a station but from what I can tell, I am not in an ideal location at all. I’m about 150 miles from the coast but I live in a valley so I don’t think I would get any traffic.

I like the concept as i do Wingbits, which I'm a part of. My issue is I'm so far inland that I think it would be futile. Unless my understanding is wrong you have to be somewhat near waterways to pick up the AIS signal. I enjoyed listening to the guy talk, w @JD I learned a lot about a completely new sector.

I like what I heard on the interviews; seems there is a company that sells AIS data that they got by buying up lots of research projects and small contributors, as well as getting free data from hobbyists. As a result they have so much data aggregation that companies that do need AIS simply get the data from them.

This is the exact type of model where depin excels at; use web3 to encourage device deploying, where contributors get paid for their work, which further encourages more deployment. Additionally the web3-based network still generates the product data at minimum cost, while encouraging properly deployment and technical improvements over other options; essentially another potential market cornering like what Geodnet has done.

I’m bullish.