Bitcoin (BTC) could be mined outside Earth for the first time later this year. The American space company Starcloud wants to launch its second satellite with special hardware to mine the ...
Starcloud, backed by Nvidia, is set to launch Bitcoin mining ASICs into space in 2026, potentially marking the first extraterrestrial crypto mining operation.
Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center startup, said it will connect Bitcoin ASICs to mine the cryptocurrency in space when its second spacecraft launches later this year.
Theres something about Bitcoin and blockchain that just seems to attract weird and wacky tinkerers. While computationally powerful ASIC miners dominate proof-of-work crypto mining today, that hasnt ...