Elon Musk responds to Goldman Sachs' bold space economy prediction

Aug 20, 2026 12:40 PM

Goldman Sachs’ $1.8 trillion space economy forecast is a massive underestimate. The real disruption is that interplanetary commerce won't run on the dollar, but on cryptocurrency. SpaceX is already holding $1.1 billion in Bitcoin and launching lunar missions paid for in Dogecoin to prove that crypto is the financial backbone of the Second Space Age. If the future of trade is off-Earth, why would we use fiat? Is a crypto-powered Mars economy actually inevitable?
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