It's not the same satellite. Do you know that starlink are not the same kind of satellite and don't have the same latency as the old providers? Starlink is much closer to the earth and has much lower latency.
You do know that Starlink is completely different because their satellites are not on geostationary orbits (but instead much closer to the earth), right?
> The weird thing is that it doesn't feel like I can't keep going... it's just that I sort of somehow don't keep going
Sounds a lot like an unfalsifiable hypothesis. Which means it can simply be a question of your perception of a phenomenon, not an objective truth of it.
Both are essentially electronic systems of information on a computing system, a format and a protocol of communication through the internet. In terms of technical difficulty to enforce them it would be very similar.
It cannot if you own your own keys. "Not your keys - not your crypto". Of course if you let some other entity to hold your keys, you're basically just using a bank, which has its own benefits, but I was talking about the unique ability to handle your keys, which crypto provides, as opposed to any other electronic money system to date.
Do you now understand why we need something like Bitcoin? (Even if it's gonna a be a newer version of it in the future, or something even more private etc.)
Because "thousands of miles away in a country that actively encourages IP theft and other wrongdoings". It makes perfect sense. If you don't think that, try to run any business in another country. It's just obvious that it would be easier to do domestically. You just list other set of problems. Those problems only get compounded if we'are talking about another country.