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BitMEX, the world’s leading crypto derivatives exchange, is sending Bitcoin to the Moon on January 8 at 02:18 am ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Working in partnerships with Astrobotic, Bitcoin Magazine, and Oxcart Assembly, the mission’s success will prove the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology in creating a truly borderless financial system beyond Earth, in addition to the inaugural Western soft lunar landing since NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The Bitcoin carried on the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket, and integrated onto Peregrine-1, commercial lunar lander, is scheduled to reach the Moon in late February (tentative arrival date: February 23, 2024).