The Moon Agreement was considered and elaborated by the Legal Subcommittee from 1972 to 1979. The Agreement was adopted by the General Assembly in 1979 in resolution 34/68. It was not until June 1984, however, that the fifth country, Austria, ratified the Agreement, allowing it to enter into force in July 1984. The Agreement reaffirms and elaborates on many of the provisions of the Outer Space Treaty as applied to the Moon and other celestial bodies, providing that those bodies should be used exclusively for peaceful purposes, that their environments should not be disrupted, that the United Nations should be informed of the location and purpose of any station established on those bodies. In addition, the Agreement provides that the Moon and its natural resources are the common heritage of mankind and that an international regime should be established to govern the exploitation of such resources when such exploitation is about to become feasible. ~ United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Sometimes the best solution, is the oldest solution in a new package. One such solution is the common ledger already centuries old, but with the advent of the internet and personal computing, we now have an emerging platform called the blockchain. The blockchain gained it’s current notoriety as the backbone behind Bitcoin, the digital currency created in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Currently, years after the creation of Bitcoin, and hundreds of other coin platforms, we know the blockchain as a public ledger and a distributed database, that records transactions and maintains a network by communicating nodes running the platforms software.

With blockchain technology readily available for archiving smart property and property titles, providing consensus, decentralization, and cryptographic security, it only seems fitting for our time that large global problems could find a solution within the blockchain.

The Moon Squatter Registry of Deeds solves the moon land management problem. As moon pioneers put it on the line, explore and establish a foot hold on another world, their findings, settlements, discovered resources and land claims will be archived in the Registry of Deeds on the Ethereum Blockchain. Data available to all... As this data is the heritage of all mankind.