Well, think of the balloon as a replacement for a satellite. Think of all the things satellites do, and what the world would look like if the same functionality could be delivered 100-1000x cheaper and could be landed / take off again. 

The balloon is payload agnostic. Sensing, surveillance, internet are payloads we are in talks with potential customers for today. HFT is another area. 

Reachableceo

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Removing the last few middleman

Was thinking of the balloon -- not obvious to me who would want that besides (in theory) bitcoiners, or blockchains hell-bent on preventing chain splits and the like.  Would be interested in pointers / documents / whatever to learn more.