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by filleokus 2122 days ago
But if you can access to information from an exchange halfway across the world faster than others, you can definitely trade on that.
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And if you can break the speed of light, you don't need a second exchange.
It’s quite easy to “break” the speed of light in fiberoptic glass.
But it's not that useful even if you pour a glass cube over the whole exchange to slow it down.
> It’s quite easy to “break” the speed of light in fiberoptic glass.

I don’t understand this, why? Does light travel faster than the speed of light in fibre optic glass?

"the speed of light in fiberoptic glass" is the thing being broken.