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Microsoft will mine bitcoin with your brain
Tech giant files patent for body activity cryptocurrency system.
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system which mines cryptocurrency through body activity, like heart rate and brain waves, that could be used by advertisers.
The patent describes an 'overarching system' whereby a blockchain provides a server with a computational task that gets handed to a sensor attached to a person.
That ‘sensor’ may be a heart rate monitor, thermal sensor, camera, fMRI scanner, or “any other sensor or scanner that can measure or sense body activity or scan human body”.
Microsoft specifically describes different brain waves (gamma, beta, theta, delta) and how they can be measured “to evaluate the electrical activity of the brain, such as deep concentration”.
After being assigned a blockchain proof-of-work task by the server, the user device solves it based on ‘body activity data’ generated by the person.
The patent says specific data could be produced by watching an advertisement for a certain time, for example, or through using a specific social network or website.
The data then gets relayed back to the cryptocurrency system which can check the user-generated hash based on, for example, “if the vector(s) received from [the] user device have one or more mathematical properties set by [the] cryptocurrency system/network”.
This could be done by determining “whether the vector(s) of the body activity have similarity (or a relationship) with a legitimate vector (or a baseline vector) set by an algorithm of [the] cryptocurrency system”.
If it all matches up, the user is rewarded for their work with cryptocurrency.
