Would it be feasible to connect a cryptocurrency to astronomical discovery? Not just using processing power but a physical 'bottleneck' to generate the currency?
For example, detection of Near Earth Objects is probably a common good, they are detectable by relatively amateur telescopes, and can be independently verified by hundreds or thousands of independent observers.
Would it be possible and practical to inject an additional non-computational verification system such as multiply verified NEO tracking data into a cryptocurrency without majorly compromising security?
My thinking is you'd have many independent clearing houses that would certify the discoveries and function as an intentional bottleneck in the process. Because the data of the NEO is auditable by outside observers , or the NEO might rip apart, you build it so you can clawback currency. You also build in a rule that once the rate of discovery of a certain class of objects accelerates over a certain value (x discoveries/unit of time), or becomes too rare, (you find them all), the clearing houses and miners are required to develop of a super majority consensus of the next astronomical object to observe within similar probability parameters of the new objects being hard but not impossible to find. So if NEO get too easy or too hard to find, something harder like Oort cloud objects are used.
I figure this would take the demand off of GPUs as telescopes and clear skies become more important.
Probably a dumb idea but wanted to know why it would be dumb.
For example, detection of Near Earth Objects is probably a common good, they are detectable by relatively amateur telescopes, and can be independently verified by hundreds or thousands of independent observers.
Would it be possible and practical to inject an additional non-computational verification system such as multiply verified NEO tracking data into a cryptocurrency without majorly compromising security?
My thinking is you'd have many independent clearing houses that would certify the discoveries and function as an intentional bottleneck in the process. Because the data of the NEO is auditable by outside observers , or the NEO might rip apart, you build it so you can clawback currency. You also build in a rule that once the rate of discovery of a certain class of objects accelerates over a certain value (x discoveries/unit of time), or becomes too rare, (you find them all), the clearing houses and miners are required to develop of a super majority consensus of the next astronomical object to observe within similar probability parameters of the new objects being hard but not impossible to find. So if NEO get too easy or too hard to find, something harder like Oort cloud objects are used.
I figure this would take the demand off of GPUs as telescopes and clear skies become more important.
Probably a dumb idea but wanted to know why it would be dumb.
