Hi folks, from time to time I will post some interesting links being related to the very ambitious idea of Asgardia.

Today I will elaborate on the arising industry of resources in space. Since Asgardia once mentioned to regulate the commercialization of outer space resources I recommend that the asgardian leaders make themselves familiar with the following constellation. If this already took place I am curios what the current state or the outcome of the conversation is / was.

I found a startup founded in 2012 which claims to be the leading provider of resources for people and products in space through its goal of identifying, extracting, and refining resources from near-Earth asteroids, called "planet ressources".

Famous founders of this company are among others

Peter Diamandis, / Head of Board of the  X-Prize-Foundation ( https://www.xprize.org )
Chris Lewicki / Ex-Nasa-Employee.

Further "Planet Ressources" had famous investors like

Larry Page / Google-Founder
Eric Schmidt / Ex-Google-Manager

James Cameron / Film Director,  is a scientific consultant

Mr. Lewicky has been a leading team member of the Marsrover Missions "Spirit" and "Opportunity" and is now Head of the company

https://www.planetaryresources.com/company/

For more information

https://www.planetaryresources.com/

However Planetary Ressources has been taken over by a blockchain based solution develoment company called "Consensys"

https://consensys.net/

As nobody has ever exploited astroids with useful and valuable resources one now might ask, what has blockchain to do with it. Consys plans to create a blockchain based platform to allow secure trading with ressources from astroid. All the transactions will be stored, secured, authenticated and documented and handle based on "smart contracts". Smart contracts are based on the blockchain technology "ethereum"

Now some questions arise. All the companies are located in the US. If now tradings are made, the tax liablility arises in the US.

Is Asgardia involved in these developments?
What are current actions to prevent the United States preeminence?
Are there discussions taking place to work for the prosperity of earthlings and if so how can the tax liability can be transferred to Asgardia?

Feel free to comment or add my post! I am curios for your responses!

Best regards!