Crypto boosters have long claimed to be going to the moon, but it appears the blockchain technology will soon actually reach space. Lockheed Martin on Monday announced plans to host a decentralized storage network in space, as it hopes to build infrastructure that can sustain life in space.
To work towards that lofty goal, the aerospace and defence giant will harness what’s aptly called the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), which was created in 2015. It’s “decentralized” storage because instead of serverfarms, like those run by Amazon or Google, files are stored by users around the…
