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Earliest mentions of Bitcoin blockchain beamed via space That I Could Find
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> ladeies and gentlemen
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> what happens to bitcoin
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> if ther internetz everz goez downz?
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> hope that some people put up free to use cubesats
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> i want my own cube sat :(
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> can the bitcoin block discovery every 10 minutes
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> run over cube sats, whatever they mayb e?
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> it's a 50,000$ satellite
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> 100,000$ including launch
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> so that's like what, 5K btc?
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> i meant, for intercommunication between users
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> waht's the maintenance fee for one of these suckers?
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> after launching it? nothing
#bc-news @20110826 <spaola> Should there be a Bitcoin satellite in flying through space? HELL YES! Grin, par JTL420 (vlad the inhaler)http://twitter.com/JTL420 (bitcoin - Twitter Search) http://twitter.com/JTL420/statuses/107224027810119681
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#bitcoin-dev @20120103 <gmaxwell> Eliel: If you can raise about a grand a month I'd be glad to run a satellite blockchain feed that can be recieved by fairly inexpensive hardware.
#bitcoin-dev @20120103 <Eliel> gmaxwell: getting the blockchain isn't enough, they'd also need a way to get the transactions out.
#bitcoin-dev @20120103 <Eliel> although, this satellite thing reminds me of http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16367042
#bitcoin-dev @20120103 <gmaxwell> Eliel: getting the chain prevents anyone from being victimized by double spends at least.
#bitcoin-dev @20120103 <gmaxwell> Eliel: the DOS part.. well, yes, but e.g. if they're without power they can't use it either— you don't expect me to fix that?
#bitcoin-dev @20120103 <gmaxwell> You can get out via a two way satellite terminal if you have one, though they're not super cheap to just have laying around. :)
#bitcoin-dev @20120103 <Eliel> I expect most bitcoin devices will be battery powered.
#bitcoin @20120114 <coingenuity> in all seriousness, i will launch a satellite for you bitcoin
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 * jgarzik seriously wonders if he could do a cubesat bond
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <sipa> cubesat?
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <gmaxwell> [[Cubesat]]
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <gmaxwell> aw this channel doesn't have the wikipedia link deref bot.
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <gmaxwell> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <gmaxwell> jgarzik: it ought to have an asic miner in it of course.
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <gmaxwell> and bitcoin txn relaying.
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <jgarzik> hehehe, I was thinking more along the lines of a boring comm sat, maybe with a camera or two
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <jgarzik> cheap off the shelf parts, space-wise, means stuff too weak to run bitcoin software
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <jgarzik> 100 Mhz processors, 128 MB RAM, etc.
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <gmaxwell> jgarzik: pshaw. thats not ambitious, a bitcoin relay would be ambitious, plus camera of course. It would have shade of "some crazy dictatorship blocks the internet, fuck you, bitcoin users launch satellite" :P (so people there can exchange coins using the computers and radios they don't have, :( )
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <jgarzik> hehehe, true
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <jgarzik> but since I really am spec'ing out a cubesat project, I have to be realistic ;p
#bitcoin-dev @20120912 <jgarzik> was only joking about the bitcoin funding part
Related Reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3zab34/whatever_happened_to_the_bitcoin_satellite_43/
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