Money Between Planets | How a Space Crypto Coin Would Work

How do you send money to Mars when a message can take minutes to arrive? Step into a future economy spread across Earth, the Moon and Mars. Follow 100 interplanetary credits through local ledgers, a delayed transfer certificate, retries and a returning receipt. White-headed stick figures explain why fast local payments and honest interplanetary status updates solve different problems. The space communication limits and store-and-forward networking are real. The credit and regional accounting system are an illustrative future design, not an announcement of a currently circulating asset. The demonstration assumes trusted source evidence and does not establish a secure production protocol. Sources: NASA Earth-Mars communications: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/speakin... NASA delay tolerant networking: https://www.nasa.gov/reference/delay-... JPL solar conjunction: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/whats-m... CHAPTERS 00:00 Money leaves Earth 00:53 The architecture 01:43 Follow one payment 04:00 When the link fails 05:42 The security questions 06:24 The human interface 07:28 Beyond one payment 08:35 The final idea