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CoffeeOnWrite
on April 24, 2014
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How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm
Why not use the solar electricity to mine bitcoin from space?
mdelias
on April 24, 2014
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Jeff Garzik Announces Partnership to Launch Bitcoin Satellites into Space
http://www.coindesk.com/jeff-garzik-announces-partnership-la...
cvbncvbncgbc
on April 25, 2014
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So instead of improving the algorithms that support our virtual currency, we brute force the problem with
sending stuff to space(!)
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Sounds like a plan that could destroy a civilization in the long term.
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