I guess they are preparing the wonders of vast space to be the center for making a miner that will use the vast space and time to mine for Bitcoin, the unlimited capacity and imagine free internet to be powered by energy in space, I just heard a quite pointers on what may happen in their exploration, but their main focus is cryptocurrency.
Well, even though I have experience with cryptocurrency and Blockchain I'd rather stay on earth and be on the comfort of my home, I do not really suit in extreme weather condition on space in my opinion, but this kind of project makes me thrill in what can they really been up to.
it has nothing to do with intergalatic currencies
big data in space doesnt work, everyone knows data relay from mars to earth isnt instant, between 4-24 minutes depending on the orbits around the sun the planets have.
and having 10,000 systems onboard just aint possible. so having to send short databursts, have earth process it quickly so the satalite can be commanded to move on to the next section
its for things like once data is collected back on earth, then mining it. imagine instead of one super computer reading a data file and looking for a certain piece of data like GHJK but they dont know that what they are looking for begins with G yet. they can have the file distributed across many computers across the world and all the computers are set to have one computer start at A another start at B and so on looking for HJK. where obviously the G computer will be the winner this time but do it real fast rather than it have one system start with a,b,c,d,e,f,g,
same to mining crypto.(simplified for demo, dont knitpick)
instead of searching huge numbers where using one system starts at 000000000000000000000001
which would get to 000000005000000000000001 after the first second using a 50terrahash miner
which would get to 000003000000000000000001 after 10 minutes using a 50terrahash miner
by having another asic
000010000000000000000001 to 000013000000000000000001
000020000000000000000001 to 000023000000000000000001
and so on. the entire set of possibilities of that range can be searched in 10 minutes using 10,000 asics
rather than 1 system taking 100k minutes (~70 days)
imagine it like having telescopes that photograph the vastness of space, looking for a certain red hue that indicates a red dwarf. do you want a telescope taking a HD image and spending 70 days reading the data looking for a RGB datacode for the red in the vastless of datacodes of black and white bfore it gets to move position to the next grid, or send the data to earth let 10,000+ systems churn through the data in minutes and be able to command the telescope at what location to concentrate on within the hour