Crypto Founder Takes Seat On SpaceX Journey To Mars
Wang Chun has a specific worry about Mars. Not whether humans can survive the journey, but whether anyone will bother to try. The founder of crypto mining pool F2Pool put his money behind that worry this week by purchasing a seat on SpaceX’s first crewed mission to the red planet. Related Reading: Bitcoin Pizza Day: […]
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SpaceX has announced its first crew member for an interplanetary mission to Mars, and it happens to be someone with roots to Bitcoin mining. F2Pool Co-Founder Joins First SpaceX Human Flight Mission To Mars According to a SpaceX website announcement, Chun Wang is set to fly aboard Starship’s first human spaceflight interplanetary mission to Mars. […]
Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, widely believed to be the man taking humanity to Mars and building a permanent settlement there, tweeted his approval of the idea that Mars’ economy will run on cryptocurrency. Elon Musk Envisions Mars’ Economy Run on Cryptocurrency Elon Musk believes that Mars’ economy will be run on cryptocurrency. He said early this month that he is “highly confident” that his company Spacex will land humans on Mars “about six years from now.” He further noted that it could even come as early as 2024 “if we get lucky.”....
Have some spare bitcoins you'd like to give away but don't know how? The Mars One Foundation - the private operation hoping to launch a manned mission to mars (a human settlement) - is now accepting bitcoins using BitPay for a number of perks on Indiegogo, a crowdsourcing platform. Bitcoin contributions can earn the contributor anything from a mission backstage pass for the equivalent of $10 USD, all the way to being a Mars One benefactor and receiving a VIP tour for the equivalent of $25,000 USD. But will the project even lift off? With 18 days remaining, the Mars One foundation needs to....
Decentralized credit protocol Mars is set to launch today, March 7th, on the Terra ecosystem. One of the most hype projects in the crypto space, Mars will bring the financial services of a legacy financial institution without its tradeoffs. Related Reading | Terra (LUNA), Quant (QNT) Pull Up As Avalanche (AVAX) Nosedives In addition, users that interacted with the Mars Protocol are eligible to receive an airdrop of their governance token, MARS. At the time of writing, the token that will provide this protocol’s community with decision power over future proposals trends downside with....
Roman Koshlyak, a former Facebook software engineer and current CEO of Troider, an experimental content publishing platform, has created a petition asking NASA, an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government, to “create Bitcoin wallets for Curiosity and Opportunity and put private keys on Mars.” “Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission… since landing on August 6, 2012,” according to Wikipedia. Opportunity is much older, landing in 2002, but remains on Mars, undertaking....