This blog post isn't a dig against the world of Decentralization, crypto currency, and the blockchain. It is info sharing, bringing light to subjects not spoken about. A key word to describe the information is the possibility of a future with a Weaponized Block Chain Technocracy. In the best of light it is the opportunity to maximize your bodies potential, and create income, and possibly financial independence for some. A world where you could even monetize your body as a Crypto Miner.
As an example of Transhumanist Technology intertwined with the Crypto Currency Mining World. Is the The Dutch Institute of Human Obsolescence.
"The Dutch Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO) explores ways of producing capital through what it calls “invisible labour”.
"Exploring the potential of the human body to produce capital"
"A single human body at rest radiates 100 watts of excess heat. We created a body-suit that uses thermoelectric generators to harvest the temperature differential between the human body and ambient and converts it into usable electricity. The electricity generated is then fed to a computer that produces cryptocurrency."
"We mine recently created cryptocurrencies that have more potential to grow in value."
The second aspect of the IoHO outside of using human power to crypto mine is a project that involves Human-produced data .
"Despite seemingly moving towards a society without human work, we have started to perform new forms of invisible labour. Human-produced data is a resource already extracted by Big Tech, producing vast amounts of capital. This new role that humans have taken in society is obscured by promises imposed by Big Tech. Why aren't we, the data workers, capitalising from it? If even jobless workers are generating capital by producing data, are we truly unemployed?"
I highly recommend touring their website, incredibly interesting, futuristic, with cutting edge social relevance.
Bitcoin wasn't worth over $50,000 when the Dutch Institute of Human Obsolescence in 2018 came into the public crypto mining realm. A interesting statistic on how much Human Electricity would be needed to mine one Bitcoin, which is the IoHO's reason for mining newer crypto currencies is quoted below. I wonder how the IoHO made out financially from mining after 2 years of explosive crypto growth?
"Beltrán reveals the team didn’t mine bitcoin due to the extreme difficulty to produce them with human body heat. Essentially, it would take over 4,500 individuals doing absolutely nothing but wear IoHO’s special suit all day and night to mine one single bitcoin. IoHO chose to use easier to mine coins which produced significantly better funding results.
https://news.bitcoin.com/these-dutch-researchers-are-mining-cryptocurrencies-with-body-heat/
The idea of a commercially available outfit to convert body heat into electricity to mine crypto currency while you are sleeping for 8 hours has me sold. Could this technology be weaponized? Absolutely. Imagine 10,000 convicts in a prison being forced to plug in to mine crypto currency in the future. What about people in nursing homes and hospitals? Could you turn a nursing home into a Crypto Farm with this technology? I actually waited until the end of the post to make a Matrix Analogy😃. How prophetic was the movie "The Matrix" in 1999 with the concept of Artificial Intelligence using humans as power cells?
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"The Weaponized Block Chain" Episode 2 "The Bad"
