Quote from: AdamCampbell on May 06, 2018, 12:22:39 PM

I think the temperature at that altitude is ideal for mining (It also bears the risk of the equipment freezing!). Now if only we could stick together a couple of S9's and hook them up to a little solar power generator in there... That would be even more amazing!

Hook it on what? Huh

Temperature in space close to Earth is around 10 Celsius, there is no risk of freezing and without air there is actually no air convection and heat is lost through radiation....it gets complicated.
But that balloon was flying in the stratosphere and at those levels the average is -20-10 C.

Quote from: Kprawn on May 06, 2018, 01:56:06 PM

Can these balloons stay up there indefinitely or do they return back to earth? I know there are projects like this to provide internet to remote regions. Project Loon. Wink

At maximum a month. Depends on the size, the cargo...

Quote from: Victorias on May 06, 2018, 02:17:46 PM

All that today seems to us useless and unreal tomorrow will be quite common. I think and mining in space is quite a real activity in the near future.

By the time we would be able to launch "something" that can power up 60 ThW of miners the reward will be 1 satoshi Cheesy

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Quote from: warning_btc on May 08, 2018, 09:05:35 AM

Using solar power to mine bitcoins on space with some avialable for now asic devices interesting idea, but can it ROI space shuttle ?

Just the launch of a Falcon X is around 6000 BTC. Of course it's not viable.