Does geographic location affect Kaspa's network structure?

Geographic latency biases how Kaspa's network arranges itself, but does not on its own determine whether the network is decentralized. When nodes and miners are spread across the world, data takes longer to travel between distant peers — this physical delay influences which peers tend to connect with which, shaping the network's topology. Cloud infrastructure can reduce that variation in travel time, but it cannot erase physical distance, and it introduces its own risks: nodes hosted on the same cloud provider share infrastructure and routing controls, which can create concentration points. For a beginner, the key insight is that geographic structure is a permanent feature of how Kaspa works, not a flaw to be engineered away — the protocol is designed to work with these latency patterns rather than against them.