Bitcoin may soon be used for interplanetary commerce. If the “people of Earth” has their way, that is.

Last week, a petition was filed in the White House website that asked NASA, an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government, to “create bitcoin wallets for Curiosity and Opportunity and put private keys on Mars.”

The petition was created by Roman Koshlyak, a former Facebook software engineer and current CEO of experimental content publishing platform Troider. In his petition, Koshlyak asked the government to find a way for people to have access to “interplanetary commerce” so that Earthlings can send a donation to expand space exploration programs.

Why bitcoin, you ask?