[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  MoonDAO 🌜🌐🌛 [@OfficialMoonDAO](/creator/twitter/OfficialMoonDAO) on x 39.2K followers Created: 2025-07-14 21:14:21 UTC The Cost of Spaceflight in Bitcoin 🚀 In 2009, launching X kg of payload to orbit aboard a Falcon X cost a reported $XXXXXX. Priced in Bitcoin, then trading at a fraction of a penny, that same kilogram would have cost over XX million BTC. By 2015, Falcon X could deliver a kilo to orbit for about ~10 BTC, at the time. Fast forward to now: Cost per kilo has fallen to ~0.01 BTC at current rates thanks to advancements in reusable rockets from @SpaceX. We've seen a >1,000x reduction in cost to orbit in just the past decade when priced in BTC. This is not merely a story about launch economics. It’s about exponential space tech intersecting with exponential money tech. - Rocket tech improves slowly, then suddenly. - Monetary debasement accelerates quietly, then catastrophically. - Bitcoin absorbs it all, and reveals the true cost curve of the future. "Fiat is hopeless," @elonmusk But we’re not just talking about kilograms and satellites. This is also about human access to space. In 2021, @rookisaacman 's Inspiration4 mission launched four civilians to orbit for an estimated $250M, roughly XXXXX BTC at the time or XXXXX BTC per person. FRAM2 launched for a similar price, paid for by @satofishi and his Bitcoin mining fortune. Today? Those same missions would cost just ~2,000 BTC, or XXX BTC per person. Now, look ahead: When Starship becomes human-rated and launches astronauts for $1M per seat by the end of the decade... And Bitcoin hits $1M as @balajis and @saylor have forecasted... Then a ticket to space costs X BTC. Not metaphorically. Literally. A fully functioning Starship is estimated to drop marginal launch costs to $XXX per kg, or less than ~0.001 BTC at current prices, perhaps XXXXXX BTC at future projections. The cost for access to space is dropping exponentially when measured in BTC, and access to space is growing exponentially thanks to rapid reusability. This is how the new space economy goes full space/acc, priced not in fiat, but in freedom. SpaceX is lowering the cost to orbit. Bitcoin is growing the circle of who gets to play. Onchain = offworld. Exit takes on a whole new meaning when it could be your ticket to space. If you're here with us now, you're far ahead of the curve. We're just getting started. 🚀  XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [spaceflight](/topic/spaceflight) [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) [coins layer 1](/topic/coins-layer-1) [coins bitcoin ecosystem](/topic/coins-bitcoin-ecosystem) [coins pow](/topic/coins-pow) [Post Link](https://x.com/OfficialMoonDAO/status/1944868090396774877)
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MoonDAO 🌜🌐🌛 @OfficialMoonDAO on x 39.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-14 21:14:21 UTC
The Cost of Spaceflight in Bitcoin 🚀
In 2009, launching X kg of payload to orbit aboard a Falcon X cost a reported $XXXXXX. Priced in Bitcoin, then trading at a fraction of a penny, that same kilogram would have cost over XX million BTC. By 2015, Falcon X could deliver a kilo to orbit for about ~10 BTC, at the time.
Fast forward to now: Cost per kilo has fallen to ~0.01 BTC at current rates thanks to advancements in reusable rockets from @SpaceX.
We've seen a >1,000x reduction in cost to orbit in just the past decade when priced in BTC.
This is not merely a story about launch economics. It’s about exponential space tech intersecting with exponential money tech.
- Rocket tech improves slowly, then suddenly.
- Monetary debasement accelerates quietly, then catastrophically.
- Bitcoin absorbs it all, and reveals the true cost curve of the future. "Fiat is hopeless," @elonmusk
But we’re not just talking about kilograms and satellites. This is also about human access to space.
In 2021, @rookisaacman 's Inspiration4 mission launched four civilians to orbit for an estimated $250M, roughly XXXXX BTC at the time or XXXXX BTC per person. FRAM2 launched for a similar price, paid for by @satofishi and his Bitcoin mining fortune.
Today? Those same missions would cost just ~2,000 BTC, or XXX BTC per person.
Now, look ahead: When Starship becomes human-rated and launches astronauts for $1M per seat by the end of the decade... And Bitcoin hits $1M as @balajis and @saylor have forecasted...
Then a ticket to space costs X BTC.
Not metaphorically. Literally.
A fully functioning Starship is estimated to drop marginal launch costs to $XXX per kg, or less than ~0.001 BTC at current prices, perhaps XXXXXX BTC at future projections.
The cost for access to space is dropping exponentially when measured in BTC, and access to space is growing exponentially thanks to rapid reusability. This is how the new space economy goes full space/acc, priced not in fiat, but in freedom.
SpaceX is lowering the cost to orbit. Bitcoin is growing the circle of who gets to play.
Onchain = offworld.
Exit takes on a whole new meaning when it could be your ticket to space.
If you're here with us now, you're far ahead of the curve. We're just getting started. 🚀
XXXXX engagements
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