The BitMEX exchange sends a bitcoin to the Moon in a NASA rocket.
Bitcoin on the Moon!
T-24h until BitMEX’s #BitcoinToTheMoon mission 🚀
Tea @Astrobotic Peregrine 1 is all set for its launch, scheduled to carry the first-ever #Bitcoin to the moon on Mon, 8 Jan 2024 at 07:18 UTC.
Watch the launch live on @NASA TV:https://t.co/GufCM6Ix7s pic.twitter.com/DibI9Eqr0u
— BitMEX (@BitMEX) January 7, 2024
The expression “To The Moon” has never been more appropriate than today. Indeed, the BitMEX perpetual exchange announced the sending of the first Bitcoin in history on the Moon, on January 8.
In fact, Bitcoin is on board an American NASA rocket. This “Lunar lander” is used as part of the Pregrine-1 mission, scheduled for January 8. The rocket Vulcan Centaur will be launched from the ramp at Cape Canaveral and Bitcoin was engraved on a public address (1MoonBTCixFH3XTrWRCbMpK23o74nQrA1Q) and private keys. It is expected to reach its final destination next mid-February.
Initially announced last year, this spatial deployment of the first Bitcoin would be with the aim of initiating a space economy, according to Stephan Lutz, CEO of BitMEX.
“Charged with 1 BTC and engraved with a public address and private key, it is the first financial asset sent into space. Future generations will be able to interact with the token from Earth or space, and send personal items such as Bitcoin Ordinals to the Moon via the public address. The successful landing of physical Bitcoin on the lunar surface by the commercial lunar lander Peregrine-1 will mark the first step in creating a monetary system for a space economy.” they wrote on their press release.
Could a technical problem compromise everything?
Update #4 for Peregrine Mission One: pic.twitter.com/6uISAG3Je1
— Astrobotic (@astrobotic) January 8, 2024
However, nothing ever goes as planned. Indeed, according to the latest news, the Peregrine-1 mission is in the process of turn into a disaster.
According to the latest news, the landing on the Moon seems more compromised than ever.
“Given the situation, we have prioritized optimizing the science and data we can collect. We are currently evaluating alternative mission profiles that might be feasible at that time,” says astrobotic.
As NASA indicatesAcrobotic “is currently evaluating a propulsion problem with its lunar lander.” According to, Acrobotic, “each mission is an opportunity to learn”. We may still have to wait to see the first Bitcoin on the Moon and the creation of an interspace economy.
Source: CoinTeleGraph
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