BitNation & Spacechain: The Mission to Decentralize Space Exploration
A new decentralized space venture has recently begun, formed by a recent partnership with BitNation and Spacechain. R.O.S.S. (Race to Open Source Space) is a small rocket being prepared by the two teams. The mission of the program is to compete directly with space operations owned and operated by the nation states and private businesses. CEO BitNation, Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof explains: One of the steps in the organization's roadmap is the June 26 launch of Stratoshi – pending favorable weather conditions - which will be one of many high altitude balloon experiments to test the....
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Bitnation now has a space program. The Bitnation Space Agency will be headed by Iman Mirbioki and experiment with drones that fly in formations in order to develop a navigational system based on a new type of Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG). The program is officially called Spacechain Space Program and their website can be found here. According to their website: Our mission is to explore the universe, discover, develop science and technology that will push the human civilization further. All technology will be available as open source. The 35-year-old Mirbloki comes from Sweden, and has....
While the space race for humanity began in the mid-1950s, blockchain technology took its first steps outside Earth in February 2018, and now Elon Musk has declared the start of the space race in early June 2021. With the recent news that SpaceX was going to carry some payload funded by Dogecoin, the latter was likely to be the first cryptocurrency to reach the Moon. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter 3 rideshare mission with several small satellites for government and industry customers on January 13th. It lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral....
U.K.-based SpaceChain beat 13 other national applicants to secure the funding.
Bitnation is a Governance 2.0 platform powered by distributed blockchain technology. Bitnation aims to provide the same services provided by traditional governments, but in a geographically unbound, decentralized, and voluntary way. The Bitnation crowdsale of the XBNX altcoin, the traded equity stake in the foundation of Bitnation, started today. At the same time, the three most senior members of the Bitnation team (save for the CEO) left Bitnation with an open resignation letter. CNN reached out to the parties involved to find out what happened and why. Bitnation CEO Susanne Tarkowski....
BitNation is described as offering a "full range of services traditionally done by governments." Included in this are secure ID systems, block chain dispute resolutions, marriages and divorces, land registries, education, insurance, security and more. BitNation hopes to accomplish all of this through a fully distributed platform. It seems like the buzz word of 2014 is DAO or DAC (distributed autonomous organization/corporation, respectively). Ethereum has gotten a lot of media for their launch, and BitNation is preparing for their own launch, which takes place in approximately 13 days. I....