THELOGICALINDIAN - Reid Williamson launched a Dogecoin airship this anniversary in account of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
YouTube host Reid Williamson beatific a Dogecoin badge into the atmosphere this anniversary as a accolade to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Dogecoin Goes to Space
Williamson acclimated a helium-filled acclimate airship to accelerate the bread into the sky. Technically, it did not access alien space; it remained in earth’s atmosphere, sometimes colloquially alleged “inner space.”
Weather balloons about accomplish altitudes of beneath than 42 km, while alien amplitude begins about 100 km aloft the apparent of the Earth.
The Dogecoin badge began its flight in Austin, Texas. It catholic over thirty afar afore landing in a field. Williamson absorbed a GPS tracker to the balloon, which accustomed him to chase the airship to its landing area and balance it from a field.
It is not bright whether Williamson chose a bread with a Dogecoin abode anchored inside, or whether he alone acclimated a change bread with a account of a Shiba Inu “doge” engraved on its surface.
Though Williamson’s activity was a novelty, high-altitude balloons are acclimated for applied abstracts accumulating purposes. At atomic one company, Telokanda, is application blockchain and balloons to aggregate acclimate data.
A Tribute to Elon Musk
Williamson launched the airship as a accolade to Elon Musk on his 50th birthday. Musk has been complex with Dogecoin over the accomplished several months. After discussing it on Twitter, he eventually began to participate in its development and accede it as a acquittal option.
Musk ahead appear that a Dogecoin-funded SpaceX moon mission will booty abode in 2022. SpaceX assembly accept said that the mission will administer “cryptocurrency above Earth apogee and set the foundation for interplanetary commerce.”
Despite Musk’s common accord in the Dogecoin association on Twitter, he has not yet responded to Williamson’s video. However, Billy Markus, who created Dogecoin in 2013, took apprehension of the altercation about the viral video, calling it a “fun thread.”
Dogecoin hit an best aerial of $0.73 on May 8. Since then, prices accept collapsed as low as $0.17. As of June 29, the bread is account $0.27.
Disclaimer: At the time of autograph this columnist captivated beneath than $75 of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins, and did not authority Dogecoin.
