NASA and partners Isle of Man and Lonestar are gearing up for the next leg of the Artemis project with plans to set up an off-planet data center that's verified onchain.
of digital stamps — a technology referred to as ‘digital franking’ — which will be stored in the data cubes on the Moon. Once installed, the data will be verified via blockchain back on Earth to ensure it’s complete and untampered with.
As an interesting side effect of blockchain’s immutable nature, any astronauts landing on the Moon in the future could use the data cubes to essentially check-in on the Moon. The astronauts' interaction could be verified via the blockchain and, ostensibly, any conspiracy theories surrounding the next Moon landing could be immediately assuaged.
Per an interview with Science Focus, the head of innovation at Digital Isle of Man said it was “surprisingly difficult” for NASA to rebuke the notion that it made up the six crewed Moon landings between 1969 and 1972. Though the blockchain may not be able to disabuse conspiracy theorists of notions related to the lunar landings of the 20th century, it should serve as an indisputable register for the next humans who touch the Moon’s surface.
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