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Genesis Mining, a Bitcoin billow mining provider, beatific Bitcoin to space. As a allotment of its promotional campaign, the company conducted two acknowledged Bitcoin affairs from the earth’s apparent to about 20 and 34 kilometres up in the sky, respectively.
Genesis Mining’s “To the Moon!” campaign saw the aggregation sending a 3D archetypal of Bitcoin and a Bitcoin cardboard wallet to amplitude on a acclimate balloon. Genesis Mining has recorded the adventure application a GoPro camera placed central a Styrofoam box. The camera was focused on the Bitcoin 3D archetypal with cardboard wallet abode accounting on the added side.
The meteorological acclimate airship with Bitcoin payload was launched from an alien abode in the United Kingdom. Once the acclimate airship accomplished an distance of 20 kilometers (Armstrong Limit), the arena aggregation from Genesis Mining reportedly fabricated the aboriginal transaction to the cardboard wallet from their adaptable device. After about 16 hours, the aggregation beatific addition transaction to the cardboard wallet now at a best distance of 34 kilometers. (view affairs on blockchain)
Marco Streng, in an account with a tech annual Hacked explained that the transaction to amplitude symbolizes the byword “to the moon!” already acclimated in advertence to the ascent Bitcoin price. He was additionally quoted by the annual saying,
“As cryptocurrencies abound in acceptance it’s important to bethink that they are the best defended anatomy of bill out there, and by demonstrating how this transaction can be apparent on the blockchain, we accomplish it bright that no amount how far bitcoin goes, it’s consistently secure.”
The video of Bitcoin’s adventure to the amplitude recorded by the accompanying GoPro camera is now accessible on YouTube.
The Bitcoin and amplitude affiliation started years afore Genesis Mining promotional stunt. In 2013, a changeable flight accessory from Hawaii became the first being to buy a ticket for the amplitude cruise on Abstinent Galactic with Bitcoin. A few canicule ago, the Abstinent Galactic spaceship VSS Unity completed its aboriginal analysis flight successfully. The spaceship still has to abide lots of tests afore it is accessible for the aboriginal bartering amplitude trip.
Bitcoin has accurate that it can be acclimated for annihilation alignment from advantageous for advantage to affairs a admission to space… or alike sending money to alien space. It is aloof a amount of time afore it assets boilerplate acceptance and alike replaces the absolute authorization based budgetary system.
