https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg5az/the-quest-to-put-bitcoin-in-mouse-dna-with-a-genetically-engineered-virus
After namechecking artist Eduardo Kac’s genetically engineered phosphorescent rabbits, BitMouseDAO then rambles about how cool it will be to make a living thing into literal money. “We have tied the value of the mouse directly to Bitcoin, and it will fluctuate with the daily value of Bitcoin,” they said. “Maybe in ten years it will be worth $100 million, or maybe it will be worth nothing.”
Did... did the world get dumber in the last few years or has it always been this dumb? I'm reading these and I'm going to become the fucking joker soon :jokerfication: like what even "We're going to put bitcoin into a living animal." what the FUCK does that even MEAN what the FUCK :jokerfied: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
it could just be the internet exposing stupidity that was always there, but there's also the possibility that we genuinely are all getting progressively more brain damaged from the various poisons capitalists dump everywhere - we already know about the effects of leaded gasoline, there's ongoing study about the cognitive effects of air pollution, there's microplastics everywhere and who knows what they're doing to us, it's potentially pretty grim.
It was always like this imo it is just the internet means someone can write a story about their dog farting and get 100k people to read it. You couldn't do that in the 50s because the only people that would listen to shit like this would be the half a dozen people in your family/friend circle and half of them would call you a moron for it.
“Ideally the offspring of the BitMouse would also carry the private key,” the post says. “And we would make specimens of them to sell at auction after they die of natural causes. At that point, a single Bitcoin would split into multiple specimens, but as soon as someone breaks the specimen to extract the genetic information and thus remove the BitMouse, the other specimens would lose their value. On the flip side, breaking the specimen and destroying the artwork may not even happen when bitcoins are worthless.”
“We're certainly looking forward to all the fun!”
If the mouse is carrying around a key-ladened virus, BitMouseDao says it will create an NFT based on the image of the mouse and then auction it off. “The final bidder will receive a physical artwork of the mouse (the artwork is designed as a tribute to Damien Hirst's animal cadaver work),” BitMouseDao said. “The animal cells will remain active under this preservation technique.”
:monkas: :what-the-hell: :scared:
Hirst’s work involves large display containers and a mountain of formaldehyde to display things like sharks and cows in suspended animation. Dead, but with the appearance of life. In essence, it sounds like BitMouseDao wants to send one lucky NFT buyer a virus-ridden mouse preserved in a formaldehyde jar.
Serial killer vibes
In a bizarre world where a segment of the population wants to financialize everything, tying a literal life to the blockchain is a step over a moral and ethical line. It’s just a mouse, but even a mouse deserves the dignity of being worth more than its place on the blockchain.
the only normal line in this entire article
If Mengele was still alive today this is 100% what he would be working on
I was about to say, I have two reservations regarding these investors:
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That is clearly a rat.
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Fuck off you motherfuckers.
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Which is further evidence that they may be too stupid to revolutionise medical technology for evil in the stupidest possible way
“Maybe in ten years it will be worth $100 million, or maybe it will be worth nothing.”
i'm betting on nothing, given the mouse will flip these morons the bird and kick it within it's average lifespan of two years.
DAOs might actually be an op. Imagine trying to talk about any anarchist ideas after techbros finish coopting them.
If it helps i'm pretty sure only a small subsection of terminally online morons use the term regularly
it's two idiots with no money pretty sure this is going nowhere
