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How Bitcoin Developers Can Fill the Gap when Gold goes to Space

How Bitcoin Developers Can Fill the Gap when Gold goes to Space

via Dev.to WebdevMaali Marvin Kenneth⚡

I wrote an essay recently about a wild idea: what if central banks moved their gold reserves off-planet and parked them at a Lagrange point in space, ferried up by the same SpaceX rockets that will soon be carrying AI server farms. The thesis is simple. Gold in space solves the war problem (nobody dies fighting over rocks in orbit), creates massive STEM employment via rocketry/materials science/astronomy, and forces banking to evolve from ancient bookkeeping into something genuinely new. But what caught my attention as a Bitcoin developer (still new but started, thanks to the ₿OSS 2026) was the second-order effect: if gold leaves Earth, Bitcoin inherits the cultural and monetary space gold occupied for thousands of years. And that's where we devs come in. The Goldbugs Become Our Friends Right now, the Bitcoin community and the gold community are at each other's throats. Peter Schiff wants tokenized gold. Michael Saylor ridicules anything that isn't Bitcoin. Neither side budges. But Spa

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