MMARSCOIN Network live
Mars suspended in deep space
LIVE MARS CLOCK MTC — Ls —
01 A promise from Feb 17, 2021

“There will definitely be a MarsCoin!”

— Elon Musk · 12:09 AM · Feb 17, 2021 · 22K likes

He never built it, so we did — and we gave it something to do. $MARS buys compute on a planetary network that runs on the real Mars: NASA's laser-altimeter elevation, the IAU's 2,049 named landmarks, and a live Mars clock.

Explore Mars ↗ Read the origin ↓
2,049NAMED LANDMARKS —PERSEVERANCE SOL 21,171M — HIGHEST POINT 10MISSION SITES
02 The network

MARS IS TOO VAST
FOR ONE MACHINE.

We turn distributed compute into a planetary instrument.

Every contributed cycle resolves another piece of Mars: its terrain, its hazards, where a habitat could stand, what a rover could cross, how much sun a panel would catch. The output is a public model that gets sharper every day.

How the protocol works ↗
03 The origin

IT STARTED AS A
THROWAWAY REPLY.

February 2021. Musk is publicly worried about Dogecoin whale concentration. A follower suggests starting fresh. CZ names it. Musk promises it. Then nothing — for five years the most famous unlaunched coin in crypto just sat there.

Elon Musk · @elonmusk · Feb 15, 2021
“If major Dogecoin holders sell most of their coins, it will get my full support. Too much concentration is the only real issue imo.”
Elon Musk · @elonmusk · Feb 15, 2021
“I will literally pay actual $ if they just void their accounts”
Mansour Shahrokh · @MansourShahrokh · Feb 15, 2021
Suggests a fresh coin instead — offer it to the small holders, skip enriching the whales, and make it “the currency of the Earth.”
Elon Musk · @elonmusk · Feb 15, 2021
“Only if necessary”
CZ · @cz_binance · Feb 16, 2021
“It is necessary. Maybe call it MarsCoin?”
Elon Musk · @elonmusk · 12:09 AM · Feb 17, 2021
“There will definitely be a MarsCoin!”
Global Viking colour mosaic of Mars
04 Real planetary data

EXPLORE THE
REAL PLANET.

Not a mock-up. Click anywhere on Mars and read its true elevation from NASA's MOLA laser altimeter, its surface slope, the local solar time at that longitude, and which of the 2,049 IAU-approved landmarks you are standing in.

Open the explorer ↗
05 What we compute

WORKLOADS THAT
RESOLVE A WORLD.

01↗
Olympus Mons from the Viking orbital mosaic TOPOGRAPHY / MOLA MEGDR

Terrain & hazards

Sample real elevation across a region, derive slope from the height gradient, and classify every cell against the rover mobility limit.

16 px/°MOLA resolution
02↗
Valles Marineris from the Viking orbital mosaic INSOLATION / MARS24

Solar & seasons

Integrate a full sol of true sun angles at a site to get its energy yield, driven by the same algorithm NASA uses to keep Mars time.

586 W/m²solar constant
03↗
Jezero Crater and Nili Fossae from the Viking orbital mosaic HABITAT / SITE SELECTION

Routes & habitats

A* traverses weighted by real climb, and a sliding search for the flattest buildable pad — scored on cut-and-fill against measured ground.

3,364pads evaluated per job
Sunlit horizon of Mars
LIVE MISSION CLOCK
MARS YEAR —
06 Live on the network

THE PLANET
IS RUNNING.

Real rovers keeping real time, and the jobs this network has already run against their ground. Every receipt commits to the one before it.

—Loading mission clock…
Explore the planet ↗
07 Network protocol

FROM CYCLES
TO DISCOVERY.

01◇

Explore

Find a real place on Mars worth resolving.

→
02⌁

Dispatch

Spend $MARS; a node takes the job.

→
03◉

Compute

The workload runs on measured NASA elevation.

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04✦

Commit

A hash-chained receipt lands in the public ledger.