One Man’s Crypto Windfall Is Funding a $1 Billion Space Station Dream
Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat.


Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency. Now he’s prepared to lose a big chunk of it in space.

The billionaire who was behind the infamous Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange and the cryptocurrency XRP is the sole financial backer of a wildly ambitious effort to build the world’s first commercial space station and send it into orbit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-20/crypto-windfall-is-funding-vast-s-space-station-ambitions