Is #bitcoin scarce in a cosmic sense? Could aliens have their own form of sound money or can it only be #bitcoin? #asknostr
Discussion
Here’s the nerdy answer: There was some speculation that bitcoin wouldn’t work say on Mar because it wouldn’t be possible to sync the blocks between earth and mars which might mean that every intelligence might have their own time chain money like bitcoin
No aliens, just us. Sry
The light cone is 10 minutes
#Bitcoin is scarce for the Earth planet.
All nodes have 10 minutes for have the ledger synced, which means this is the time the new block have to travel to all the nodes
This distance is trivial within Earth, but it became a problem with interplanetary distances
The avarage distance beetwen Earth and Mars is 12-13 light minutes, so a #Bitcoin node on Mars will be always chase the sync never reaching it. This is a big problem, because while you CAN make transactions with a non-synced ledger, you CANNOT do mine operarions
For today technology, the heart of #Bitcoin will be on Earth, and other extra worlds settlements might try to use new cryptocurrencies (but, remembet that those currencies will not have the advantage to grow organically)