Qtum, a blockchain project focused on decentralized applications (DApps), announced on Twitter on Friday, February 2, that " first space The blockchain node " made by Qtum, was launched on a Chinese satellite.

We took off the first space-based blockchain node https://t.co/72wWxjuTz4 #decentralized pic.twitter.com/E779bbmhc9 – QtumOfficial (@QtumOfficial ) February 2, 2018

Qtum reported the launch date on Twitter on January 31, with a link to a countdown to [2]

However, Friday, the day of launch , the countdown has been replaced by a link to the press release of the website of the National Administration of Chinese Space on the successful launch of Zhangheng-1 satellite. Qtum and Blockchain were not mentioned in the press release

Users of the r / Qtum subreddit subroutine expressed their confusion about the disappearance of the site's countdown, asking for more & more Information about the success of the launch. Qtum's Telegram channel had posted a YouTube video of a satellite launch today, with superimposed subtitles saying it was sequences of the "first POS node" (19459004). ] in the space today. "

Qtum DApps are unique Ethereum-based DApps because the platform uses the Blockchain Unspent Transaction Production (UTXO) model, enabling lighter intelligent contract interactions with mobile and IoT programs

Qtum is also partnering with Spacechain, an open source satellite network space exploration initiative. Storing data in the space would eliminate potential problems with government regulations.

In an interview with Tech in Asia in November 2017, Zheng Zuo, the CEO of Spacechain, had talked about the scheduled launch date in February 2018 of a Cubesats. A Spacechain satellite operating on a Qtum network

Spacechain also tweeted a video of the launch today, indicating that the rocket was carrying a "SpaceChain satellite and was running the complete Qtum knot . "

Qtum did not respond to a request for comment at the time of the press.