Bitcoin will revitalize the space race. The first group to successfully launch mining centers in space will have an advantage given the abundance of energy available there.
Over time you’ll expect to see a greater percentage of the hash rate move into space. The closer you are to the sun the more energy per square meter so there’s an incentive to slowly migrate operations into a tighter solar orbit.
Then you get competition for covering more surface area. Could this be what gets us a Dyson sphere [1]?