From Russia Today, Moscow Friday, January 12, 2018
The whole world of virtual currencies and blockchain technologies has generated a raft of brand-new phenomena for humanity to take on board. And now there’s Breath -- a device allowing mining via respiration.
A respiratory mining rig has been developed by Max Dovey, an artist and researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. The tool uses spirometry -- a medical technique that measures lung capacity -- which converts breaths into a hash rate for a small computer mining on the Monero (XMR) blockchain.
The volume of breath exhaled dictates the total amount of financial profit raised in the user's mining. One puff per second equates to the computer performing 1,000 hashing operations per second, according to Breath’s website. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.rt.com/business/415695-respirator...-crypto-profit/
