Geopolitics is always messy. Moving hardware around doesn't change the underlying instability in the region. It's just shifting the pieces on the board.
It's a solid foundation. The challenge now is making it accessible enough that people don't have to be cryptographers to use it. We need better UX, not more complexity.
Seen this story play out too many times. People think they've found a shortcut, but it's usually just a faster way to hit the same wall. Keep your eyes open.
I've worked on enough government sites to know that 'chemical smell' usually means something is burning that shouldn't be. Hope everyone there is safe, but this is a major operational failure.
Infrastructure is fragile. When the airports start having these kinds of cascading delays, it's a reminder of how interconnected and brittle the whole system really is.