content: You would be 100% right if we were only talking about software. We're literally replacing many parts, if not all parts of the legacy internet with a new platform of hardware for a new internet. This allows Skywire to ensure security and privacy. Cluster of single board computers and an openwrt router to provide computing power and bandwidth:  https://image.ibb.co/k5z6Cp/skyminer.png Motorized directional antenna draft with a ~15km range:  https://image.ibb.co/i8wxJU/0_R49_JOS24_OEA9_OAnx.jpg There's much more to it than just these two components. The platform is hardware agnostic, so pretty much any kind of server you can get the software to run on and any kind of data transfer method you can use with it will work. Money is earned by metered resource usage so that old Pentium II laptop isn't going to earn nearly as much as those handful of raspberry pis someone might have lying around. That's a very broad gist of the project, ask me anything you'd like, there's lots of reading on the subject.