NXT – FIRST COIN IN SPACE?

Stalwart British technology magazine The Register announced in July that it would be launching a second aeronautics project (a follow-up to its first, called PARIS). Tentatively dubbed ‘LOHAN’ (Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator), today it was revealed that NXT Coin would be going along with it. The coin’s development team has sponsored the project and, as a result, NXT Client will be loaded aboard the spacecraft’s Raspberry Pi.
While NXT works on projects such as ‘SuperNET’ – ‘an initiative to use the core NXT technology, supplemented by a range of third party applications to create a unified network of cryptocurrencies, linking together all of the best systems available’ – [Dan] Kindly admitted that involvement with LOHAN is its most exciting current initiative.
Of course, NXT is not the first coin to have astronautic ambitions. Back in May, Dogecoin signed on to a lunar race as reported by this magazine. However, though there is no set launch date for LOHAN as of yet (weather plays a huge role), the fact that they did a test launch at the end of October seems to imply that the official launch will take place long before ‘the 4th quarter of 2015.’

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on November 21, 2014.