If people take permanent residence on another planet like mars, information will take way too long to go back and forth in-between both planets for them to be able to use Bitcoin as well. Do you think there will be a different Bitcoin for every planet? Each planet will need its own local miners and nodes to validate tx's I think

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There are several solutions to the interplanetary block propagation problem.

One is a Bitcoin clone with a 10 hour block time. This is enough time to propagate blocked throughout most of the solar system.

Another is a soft fork to increase the block time of the terrestrial chain. This could be phased in over time, like the halving. Perhaps doubling the block time with some regular cadence.

Faster internet lol