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What does it mean to have cryptocurrency on the spacecraft, physically?

Sounds like a marketing falsehood to me.

I can't imagine what a statement like, "there was 1 bitcoin on board the spacecraft" would mean. It is nonsensical given what bitcoin is, and cryptocurrency in general.

You can have the keys printed on paper and placed onboard but that does not mean there was 1 bitcoin onboard.

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> You can have the keys printed on paper and placed onboard but that does not mean there was 1 bitcoin onboard.

There is in the sense that if you go retrieve it (er, well, read and transmit the data) now you have the coin(s).

Unless someone saved a copy, of course.

I guess this was a stunt as a play on the whole "to the moon" thing with crypto? Literally (kinda) sending some to the moon.

Yes, continuing the running joke that is DOGE

https://twitter.com/DogecoinFdn/status/1744189433274941571

They were sending dogecoins. Both the coin and “sending it to the moon” were meant to be a joke in the first place.

>What does it mean to have cryptocurrency on the spacecraft, physically?

Someone took 'to the moon' literally?

Maybe it’s several bitcoins and the first person to get there keeps them all.

Imagine astronauts fight each other on the moon for the bitcoins!

Maybe they have a hardware wallet on board?

Which still wouldn’t change anything. The coin lives on the blockchain. Any sort of wallet or magic words is just the key to move what exists only on the blockchain.

And what exists on the blocking of a cryptocurrency is useless without magic words.

Yeah, maybe the blockchain is in there, too.

When someone talks about physical location of some cryptocurrency they mean physical medium with a key to a wallet.

It's a metaphor, arguing over it is unproductive.

What could be more “maximum crypto “, take the grift to a whole new level.

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