Keeping it Cool: Mining Bitcoin in Space

With the recent success of Starship’s 5th and 6th test flights, mining Bitcoin in space and data centers in space have gotten renewed attention. But every time this is discussed, people inevitably raise the objections that “space isn’t cold”, “keeping things cool in space is almost impossible”, and “latency is too high”. These people are wrong. They’ve read too much over-simplified “pop science”,…