Qtum Launches ‘First Ever’ Blockchain Node Into Space

Qtum, a Blockchain venture concentrated on Decentralized Applications (DApps), declared on Twitter Friday, Feb. 2, that the "main ever space-based Blockchain hub," made by Qtum, has been propelled on a Chinese satellite.

Qtum had announced the dispatch date on Twitter on Jan. 31, with a connection to a commencement to Feb. 2.

Be that as it may, Friday, the day of the dispatch, the commencement was supplanted with a connection to the China National Space Administration site's official statement on the effective dispatch of the Zhangheng-1 satellite. Qtum and Blockchain were not specified in the official statement.

Clients on the r/Qtum subreddit communicated perplexity over the vanishing of the site commencement, requesting more data about the achievement of the dispatch. Qtum's Telegram station had posted a YouTube video of a satellite dispatch today, with subtitles overlaid saying it was film of the "primary Qtum POS hub in space today."

Qtum's DApps are one of a kind from those in view of Ethereum on the grounds that the stage utilizes the Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) Blockchain display, empowering more lightweight shrewd contract collaborations with versatile and IoT programs.

Qtum is likewise collaborates with Spacechain, a space investigation activity went for building an open source satellite system. Putting away information in space would kill potential issues with government control.

In a meeting with Tech in Asia in November 2017, Zheng Zuo, the CEO of Spacechain, had talked about the anticipated February 2018 dispatch date of a Cubesats Spacechain satellite running on a Qtum organize.

Spacechain additionally tweeted a video of the dispatch today, composing that the rocket was conveying a "SpaceChain satellite and running Qtum full hub."