🚀 Bitcoin off Earth: Blockstream's satellite network
In 2017 (and expanded in 2018-2019), the company Blockstream launched a service called Blockstream Satellite, which broadcasts the complete Bitcoin blockchain from space, using a network of geostationary satellites.
What does it do?
📡 The system broadcasts real-time data from the Bitcoin blockchain to the entire planet. Anyone with a satellite dish and a compatible decoder can sync a Bitcoin node without the need for an internet connection.
Why does it matter?
Censorship-resistant: Even if governments block the network, you can still operate a Bitcoin node.
Inclusion: People in rural areas or without stable internet access can use the network.
Global resilience: Even if the internet goes down due to war, blackout, or disaster, Bitcoin continues to operate from space.
Blockstream offers this service for free, and you can also send private coded messages through the same satellite channel — like a type of "mail from space" that is encrypted and traceless.
> Bitcoin is not only decentralized... it is also interstellar.
🕵️♂️ Additional fact: Bitcoin in the genetic code
Yes, it sounds crazy, but it's real:
In 2018, a group of biohackers managed to encode a Bitcoin private key within the DNA of a bacterium.
How did they do it?
They took the private key (a long string of characters), converted it to binary code, and then to DNA (using bases like A, T, G, C).
They inserted that genetic sequence into the genome of a living bacterium.
Result: a Bitcoin wallet stored in a living being.
🤯 Literally, Bitcoin printed in life, impossible to detect without knowing what to look for.