NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's surface due to fuel leak

Re:NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's su... by paulproteus on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:17AM (#38927839)

The article doesn't mention Bitcoin, but I was able to find another reference to that here:

> More controversially, the lander contains non-scientific payloads, including a physical coin “loaded with one bitcoin” and a Japanese “lunar dream capsule” that contains 185,872 messages from children from around the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/08/nasa-peregri...

Happy to hear that more Bitcoin is lost.

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Re:NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's su... by pmontra on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:21PM (#38928813)

The actual coin is in the blockchain. It's lost only if they wrote the private key on the physical coin sent to space (I didn't check if they did that) and deleted the key from every backup on Earth. It's going to take a lot of Bitcoin hype before it beats the cost of a recovery mission from that orbit.

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Re:NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's su... by darknavi on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:21AM (#38927895)

This is good for Bitcoin.

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Re:NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's su... by soliton4 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:24PM (#38928869)

you mean like the klf buring a million pound was good for the gbp?

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Re:NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's su... by pests on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:41PM (#38934000)

I can't tell if you are joking. The market cap of Bitcoin remained the same, one less coin to share it with.

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Re:NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's su... by hypeatei on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:54AM (#38928417)

Few understand.

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