Obviously this is a joke, but the joke is based on a flawed premise. You could do the exact same thing on Earth without a satellite. The part he doesn't get is

Obviously this is a joke, but the joke is based on a flawed premise. You could do the exact same thing on Earth without a satellite. The part he doesn't get is that cryptocurrencies are not solving the same problem as the space probe: > the higher demand for the currency rises, the longer the delay to get your transaction into the queue for uplink and signing via the big dishes. Cryptocurrencies are solving the problem, who controls the dish? If this were real, we would see a race to the bottom with bigger and bigger dishes transmitting at higher and higher power, and it would be more damaging than Bitcoin.