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Bitcoin’s block time of 10 minutes is well-tuned for block propagation Earth-wide, but it is too short for solar system scale.

Which is the better solution for our eventual, space-fairing civilization:

1. Start a separate chain with a longer block time for interplanetary settlement.

2. Increase the block time of the main chain.

#asknostr #Bitcoin
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Low Information Voter 2y ago

What kind of unobtainium is worth trading between systems?

(Right now, somewhere on the internet, someone is building an Unobtainium altcoin, with a block time of a gigasecond and using on of monero's cast-off hashing algorithms)

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jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

IIRC, the moon has helium-3, which would be useful in fusion reactors. Saturn may also. I’d have to reread “The Case for Space” to list others. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Space-Revolution-Spaceflight-Possibility/dp/B08CVTJ1BM