Developer Wants to Launch Bitcoin Nodes into Orbit
Source: NASA (not actual cubesat). Jeff Garzik, a core bitcoin developer, is looking to launch some small-sized satellites into orbit that will work as Bitcoin nodes, according to CoinDesk. These satellites (also known as cubesats), about 10cm wide on all of its sides, would effectively be launched with larger payloads, so as to not cost hundred of millions of dollars. So how much would it cost? According to Garzik, about $2 million. In orbit, the nodes would serve as additional nodes to the many that already exist on Earth. So it is worth it? Perhaps that's up to Garzik to decide. It's....
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An ambitious plan to launch bitcoin-enabled microsatellites has taken a step forward with a new business deal. Dunvegan Space Systems, a startup led by bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik has signed a manufacturing contract with Deep Space Industries (DSI) that will find it constructing 24 nanosatellites for its proposed BitSat program. The BitSat cluster will act as space-bound bitcoin nodes and is the first of a planned series of nanosatellites. Additional BitSats will be available for purchase at $1m apiece, according to the company. Garzik told CoinDesk the launch phase of the project....
Bitcoin has already spread rapidly across the globe, but now one of the currency's core developers wants to take it where no virtual currency has gone before - space. Developer Jeff Garzik plans to launch several tiny satellites into space which will serve as a node on the bitcoin network. Historically, it has cost tens or hundreds of millions to launch satellites into space, but a new generation of privately-funded, bootstrapped satellite services has changed all that. Cubesats. Garzik's project involves building 'cubesats', which are standard, small-sized satellites, typically measuring....