Topic: How much to put bitcoin TO DA MOON (or the ISS or a satellite)? (Read 5320 times)

Ultimate Bitcoin-powered hotspot. I'd pay to be able to work on getting a decent satellite ISP accepting BTC going. The draw to Bitcoin would be insane, and the satellite(s) could hold copies of the blockchain for relatively quick distribution. Too bad there's no cheap/easy way to make it immediately accessible to everyone like a WiFi hotspot. How cool would it be if you could just plug a USB dongle in and access 4+ different satellite hotspots?

I wouldn't want any living or non-living thing put in orbit at this point except a space debris collector. So much shit in orbit that needs to be recycled or burned up. See: IMAX Space Junk or the anime Planetes.

Richard Branson might be able to help: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101220710

How about build a satellite for bitcoin transfers. Might reduce attacks.

You could send a bitcoin into space like these lego men? Cost £250!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/lego-man-space-pictures-video-2672869

This one is pretty good too - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/9039936/Lego-man-sent-to-space.html

I like "sending bitcoin to/from the ISS" better than a flag in that case.

Well maybe one the astronauts could bring a flag along to the ISS. Might not even have to pay NASA, just be a publicity stunt eh?

haha, lol!

hot-air balloons lol

If its maximum exposure that is the objective, Start them Young!

How about subsidised 1st class bitcoin Daipers with Large bitcoin logo on back and front ( and $ sign inside at the dirty end?)

You could put a raspberry Pi or beaglebone or something in it. It wouldnt survive the radiation very long, but then neither would the satellite anyway. Without motors and fuel, it will come down fairly fast again. IM not sure if anyone has done it so far, but have a look here:
http://www.zdnet.com/raspberry-pi-in-space-putting-the-linux-pc-into-orbit-7000000577/

Could it actually run a full node and keep it in sync? Im not sure we'd have the communication bandwidth for that, so I kinda doubt it.

I don't think the entire bitcoin economy in it's current state could fund such a venture

or how about .... Bitcoin, the Official Currency of the XXXX Ol y m pi cs. 

or when Elon Musk builds his hyperloop, maybe it could only accept Bitcoin as payment.

How about we put 3 bitcoin miners on 3 geosynchronous satellites, where they can store a copy each of the block chain, and then if we ever lose all our computers on earth maybe 1 of the satellites will still function... keeping the blockchain going, and the network (albeit slow)

Another quick idea for the satellite: In case it has at least a wallet, we could have it generate a key once up there, then send donations to incentivize space dust collection research

EDIT: we could also just shoot a bunch of gold into orbit, but that's less cool, not "bitcoin" and the value can't be updated.

EDIT2: having lots of money "up there" would also create incetive to keep it in orbit until it can be collected

thanks everyone for chipping in ideas. I love this thread.

Now, it seems THE MOON is such a big target that we can't even think about it seriously (yet), although I still think it might not be as expensive as some think and also that a skyrocketing bitcoin price could make it feasable pretty quickly, I'm warming up to the other ideas (I'm still thinking about setting up an escrow pool to start collecting bitcoins because, well 1.) collecting many coins now seems easier than when they're $20,000 a piece and 2.) it'll remove coins from the market for a time). Anywhichway: we will have enough time for this going forward.

I do like the other ideas, namely:

• 1.) put bitcoin onto ISS somehow
• 2.) put bitcoin onto a satellite or even make bitcoin satellite

1.) would probably easy as soon as we have someone going there in the boat... the type of network access they have there might be very restricted or not even suitable, though, so that'd have to be figured out. Also: how much sense does it make to take a blockchain (probably not much, syncing it is likely out of the question), just making a transaction would probably be good enough? What story could we use with the transaction?

2.) I've heard some college or even school projects putting mini-satellites into orbit, but what would really we want there? A full node would obviously be desireable, but is it possible (how about such big storage and type of hardware able to run in the conditions? How long do we want it to stay up there? How to sync the blockchain if we have one)

If this was done. Imagine the publicity Bitcoin would receive.

Haha I really like your idea.

technically to get to the mun, you arnt escaping kerbins earths gravity, your just orbiting the planet and elongating your orbit to get within the muns gravioli field so you can orbit it then land.

Because small rockets cant escape earth's gravity, much less reach the moon. Escape velocity from earth is about mach 34. What small rocket did you have in mind?

That said, a micro/nano/pico satellite is feasible and economically doable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat