Stellars chief technology officer and co-founder is now building a team of industry experts and engineers to pioneer a new frontier of space exploration. 1751 Total views 27 Total shares Listen to article 0:00 News Blockchain technology pioneer Jed McCaleb is shifting some of his focus to a new frontier, space.
The prominent crypto billionaire announced the launch of his new venture Vast on Tuesday, which is aimed at expanding human habitation in space enabling a future where millions of people are living across the solar system.
According to a company statement, the space habitation startup was founded by McCaleb in 2021 and will be tasked with developing the worlds first artificial-gravity space station to essentially allow humans to live and work in space.
Pioneering the world’s first #artificialgravity space station, #Vast is excited to announce our mission to expand in-space capabilities by enabling scalable solutions for humans to live and work in space. https://t.co/Kn9kjFqaDu Vast (@vast) September 12, 2022
McCalebs long history of being on the cutting edge of technology began in 2000, when he created eDonkey2000, one of the largest file-sharing networks of the time. In 2007, he founded another company that developed a videogame called The Far Wilds.
He is the creator of Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange, a well-known trading card website that was eventually converted to a Bitcoin exchange called Mt. Gox in 2011. He is also a Ripple Labs co-founder, though he left the company in June 2013.
After McCaleb left Ripple, he founded the Stellar Development Foundation in 2014.
McCaleb says he hopes to use his expertise to enable humanity to access the incredible amount of resources in our solar system, stating:I have always believed in leveraging technology to reduce inefficiency and improve the human condition. To expand human habitation in space, we have to create technologies that perfect sustainability.
According to McCaleb, he is assembling a world-class team of engineers with the support of multiple seasoned industry experts to create technology previously only seen in science fiction.
Artificial gravity is not science fiction. It only requires a large spinning structure. The resulting centrifugal force provides a gravity-emulative pull.
NASA has laid out its plan to decommission and deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) by 2031 possibly signaling a chance for commercial businesses to step in and provide replacement facilities.
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Its unclear where Vasts funding for the space station project is coming from, but according to Forbes, McCalebs net worth is at least 2.5 billion as of 2022.
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