Quote from: liquiddrool on October 29, 2013, 03:34:00 AM

Quote from: waltermot321 on October 28, 2013, 01:33:31 PM

Quote from: letcore on October 27, 2013, 10:15:06 PM

As far as I understand you could spend a Bitcoin on Mars. The light travel time means it could take up to 30 minutes to get the first confirmation, so that's not a massive problem.

But what about having miners on Mars, perhaps to speed up confirmation times for colonists.

How would the protocol fair when say a block is found on Mars and it could take nearly half an hour for it to arrive on earth?

Last I check there is no internet connection in Mars

Check again:

"NASA Shoots Lasers at the Moon to Create Insanely Fast Internet"

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/nasa-internet-laser/

laser beam? Huh

you mean line of sight.....yea right thats totally economical to limit internet to a 20 minute window each day.
back to reality - don't you think btc will be antiquated? I don't see humans populating mars at all...or by the time they do, bitcoin will be obsolete completely. Just cause its a thought doesn't mean it makes any sort of good sense. Mars makes sense like living on the moon does....it doesn't.