not exactly. The system has to be automated. You can't order your computer to go out, dig a hole and take a picture of it, can you. So when no human takes part of the mining process, blocks could still be mined and the system is running. The difficulty would just have to decrease low enough for computers to solve the problems on their own. However, when some person decides to assist its computer then suddenly it gains a vast advantage over its competitors.
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Basically we could have CAPTCHAs included in the mining process but this can't be done (at least not easily) because: who would be the authority to validate your solution?
Topic: ALTCOIN IDEA: LifeCoin & Proof of Human Work (Read 821 times)
I just had a funny thought:
What if people dug a hole then took a picture of it and then uploaded it to the block chain. Would that be considered "proof of human work"?
I see construction workers every day taking their sweet time doing their work. They dig a hole, eat lunch, have 1 guy out of 7 in the hole pretending to do work while the other 6 watch. Then cover the hole again.
Whew what a hard day's work.
Tomorrow = rinse repeat.
What if people dug a hole then took a picture of it and then uploaded it to the block chain. Would that be considered "proof of human work"?
I see construction workers every day taking their sweet time doing their work. They dig a hole, eat lunch, have 1 guy out of 7 in the hole pretending to do work while the other 6 watch. Then cover the hole again.
Whew what a hard day's work.
Tomorrow = rinse repeat.
If anyone doesn't know the Conway's Game of Life yet, watch this: http://coinmarketcap.com/
The idea would be using reversing a given state in game of life as proof of work.
LIFE(initial_state) -> new_state // this is fairly fast
new_state -> initial_state // this gets really complex
Yes, there are problems: Gardens of Eden
And I personally haven't figured out a solution to these problems BUT even if the game of life is not suitable for a CC, the reason why I'm introducing this approach is to get us closer to a CC that somehow embeds Proof of Human Work in its PoW. A hypothesis is that for some particular problems a human mind combined with computing power can generate PoWs faster than a supercomputer on its own.
For example, take a look at Fold It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo99JjnfdA8)
This is a live example of a problem where humans are vastly better at solving problems than computers on their own.
So, my idea is to come up with a CC that has its PoW made so that human assistance is required, a human entity has to manually participate in the process of mining blocks.
The idea would be using reversing a given state in game of life as proof of work.
LIFE(initial_state) -> new_state // this is fairly fast
new_state -> initial_state // this gets really complex
Yes, there are problems: Gardens of Eden
And I personally haven't figured out a solution to these problems BUT even if the game of life is not suitable for a CC, the reason why I'm introducing this approach is to get us closer to a CC that somehow embeds Proof of Human Work in its PoW. A hypothesis is that for some particular problems a human mind combined with computing power can generate PoWs faster than a supercomputer on its own.
For example, take a look at Fold It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo99JjnfdA8)
This is a live example of a problem where humans are vastly better at solving problems than computers on their own.
So, my idea is to come up with a CC that has its PoW made so that human assistance is required, a human entity has to manually participate in the process of mining blocks.
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