A Dutch website called "Institute of Human Obsolence" announced one of the weirdest - and potentially disruptive - experiments in crypto currency I ever heard of: mining crypto-currencies with human body heat. I kid you not. I double checked and the info seems legit.
As you can see from the screenshot I took below, the message is not very welcoming, but yet, in a twisted way, very promising: "The Humans Are Becoming Obsolete".
So, what they did with these Matrix-like costumes was to harvest heat from human bodies, transform that heat into electricity and power some mining rigs with it. There were a total of 37 persons taking part into this experiment. The tokens mined were: Vertcoin, Startcoin, Dash, Litecoin, Lisk and Etereum. They generated a total of 16,594 coins, with a total of 127.212 miliwatts harvested. Biggest rewards come in the form of Vertcoin and Startcoin.
I still don't know what to think of it.
One one hand, this could definitely be a solution to the basic income problem, if every living being could generate some value just by being alive.
On the other hand, I can easily see this spiraling in a fight for resources.
And when the "resources" are actually human generated heat, well, things can get really nasty, really fast.
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