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.