Bitcoins in space!

[RustyRussell]

Donated from my vanity address.  I bought ~10 bitcoins in 2011 to support what I see as a promising open source project, and have been trickling them out since then to help the bitcoin economy.

But this helps the bitcoin project much more directly than me buying another pair of shoes!

Inspirational work, Jeff!

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[takagari]

This really is epic, What would it cost if Mining groups, etc. Or even a home user, wanted a two way device to send and receive from the sat?
If you were able to give many user's the ability to send data, we would never be worried about it going down.

I'm centered in Canada with 5 acres of land, and clear skyline, would love to have a transmission station here, along with a generator, and it could survive the zombie's . Make a way for my phone's wallet to communicate and it's even better.

But would the Sat be limited on how many input's it could take? Come to think of it, I doubt all the user's could upload, they would overload it?


Excited, Wish I had more money to submit. But I'm here for moral support!

[jgarzik]

This really is epic, What would it cost if Mining groups, etc. Or even a home user, wanted a two way device to send and receive from the sat?
If you were able to give many user's the ability to send data, we would never be worried about it going down.

I'm centered in Canada with 5 acres of land, and clear skyline, would love to have a transmission station here, along with a generator, and it could survive the zombie's . Make a way for my phone's wallet to communicate and it's even better.

Sadly, satellite bandwidth is really limited.  Also, if this is to be any sort of fallback mechanism, the ability to transmit to the satellite must be limited and trusted.  Otherwise people will just DDoS the satellite right along with DDoS'ing the mesh network.

The ability to receive from the satellite, on the other hand, should be free for the whole world.

P.S.  Thanks to Rusty and Erik Voorhees for their support!

[jambola2]

You guys should hold the 30 bitcoins till they are worth 3 million to cover all costs
Best of luck with this project , it seems like a nice project , but I do not have any Bitcoins to contribute

[TiagoTiago]

If people wanted to DoS it, wouldn't it be easier to just send static on the frequencies involved?

[rarkenin]

If the satellite(s) are not in geostationary orbits it would not allow one party or group to disable its entire operation--just for a given region, unless they had transmitters around the world. Of course, such a system would give a good period of downtime per region. Only one satellite cannot cover the entire Earth at a time, and if the satellite is the only communication method the "trickle of data" would be lost leading to potential blockchain splits.

[jgarzik]

Thanks to Roger Ver / Bitcoinstore for another generous donation.

[arsenische]

Great idea! I added this project to coingiving.com (http://coingiving.com/projects/222-bitcoins-in-space). Donors will automatically be listed as sponsors there (even if they donate less than 1 btc). Hope Jeff doesn't object to such a shameless plug and smaller donations.

[rme]

Interesting project, make it happen 

[qiwoman]

I really like the idea of BTC in Space so what exactly would it benefit Humans on Earth with? I assume it is for protection against governments and any malevolent structures trying to close the Internet correct? What other services would it provide as I am very curious about the project and really admire these innovative ideas.

[jgarzik]

More coverage: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/bitcoin_space/

[Altoidnerd]

More coverage: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/bitcoin_space/

I brought up bitcoin RF systems all week in technical development, and satellites came up in two posts.  I'd love to support this project.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=370457.0

[jgarzik]

More coverage: http://gizmodo.com/crazy-hacker-wants-to-save-bitcoin-by-blasting-a-cubesa-1487464486#

[prophetx]

this is a really great idea.

eventually this would allow for connections to robotic satellites in space to build and manage data centers, and so on...

As an aside one can see in this diagram of Cloud City that mining is integrated into the purpose of the city.

[matthewh3]

www.redstarmining.com - is currently holding a motion on making a BTC1.00 donation.  As founder of the cooperative I hope it passes.

[Altoidnerd]

More coverage: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/bitcoin_space/

Jeff, I'm a physics and analog electronics expert.  I am a scientist by profession and work specifically on NMR, which amounts to wireless detection of small signals.  I do lots of RF design.

Tell me what you need done and I'll get to work - I have done some work on this concept already myself and did so without knowledge of your project.  PM and I'm listening.

[matthewh3]

www.redstarmining.com - is currently holding a motion on making a BTC1.00 donation.  As founder of the cooperative I hope it passes.

I would like to announce along with our second birthday celebration that the motion passed 

[geri]

Not sure if anyone brought this up, a satellite orbits earth about every 90 minutes, meaning we'd get connection for about 30 minutes when it's around and then silence 60 minutes. But likely there's some option to rent something "cheap", low bandwidth on a global level.

[Altoidnerd]

Not sure if anyone brought this up, a satellite orbits earth about every 90 minutes, meaning we'd get connection for about 30 minutes when it's around and then silence 60 minutes. But likely there's some option to rent something "cheap", low bandwidth on a global level.

A satellite orbits earth however often you want it to.

[edd]

There are also geosynchronous satellites.