So you want to start mining but don’t have enough money to buy an ASIC or the latest GPU to mine your favorite Proof-of-Work crypto? Don’t worry, soon you will be able to mine cryptocurrencies with the power of your mind, thanks to Microsoft. And no, it’s not a late April Fools day joke.
According to documents from the World Intellectual Property Organization, Microsoft is working to develop a system that harnesses the energy of the human body and uses it to mine cryptocurrencies.
The Human Body Could be A Natural Crypto Mining Rig
The patent called “Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data” explains that the human body generates energy that is lost with each natural physical body function. Microsoft’s idea is to use precisely this energy and put it to productive use (Matrix-style)
“Instead of massive computation work required by some conventional cryptocurrency systems, data generated based on the body activity of the user can be proof-of-work, and therefore, a use
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