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Does that mean the bitcoin is lost in space? Seems like an apt ending for such a useless PR move

The article doesn't mention Bitcoin, but I was able to find another reference to that here:

> More controversially, the lander contains non-scientific payloads, including a physical coin “loaded with one bitcoin” and a Japanese “lunar dream capsule” that contains 185,872 messages from children from around the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/08/nasa-peregri...

Happy to hear that more Bitcoin is lost.

This is good for Bitcoin.

Few understand.

you mean like the klf buring a million pound was good for the gbp?

I can't tell if you are joking. The market cap of Bitcoin remained the same, one less coin to share it with.

The actual coin is in the blockchain. It's lost only if they wrote the private key on the physical coin sent to space (I didn't check if they did that) and deleted the key from every backup on Earth. It's going to take a lot of Bitcoin hype before it beats the cost of a recovery mission from that orbit.

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