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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

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-peregrine-1-vulcan-rocket-carrying-nasa-moon-lander-lifts-off-in-florida https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/08/nasa-peregri... Happy to hear that more Bitcoin is lost.

darknavi 3y ago
This is good for Bitcoin.
- hypeatei 3y ago
  Few understand.
- soliton4 3y ago
  you mean like the klf buring a million pound was good for the gbp?
  - pests 3y ago
    I can't tell if you are joking. The market cap of Bitcoin remained the same, one less coin to share it with.
pmontra 3y ago
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.