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Microsoft has patented a system that uses human biometrics such as body heat and brain-wave activity to mine cryptocurrency.
微软已经申请了一项专利，该专利利用人体热量和脑波活动等人体生物特征来开采加密货币。
The patent,filed under international patent number WO-2020-060606 and titled'Cryptocurrency System Using Body Data Activity',leverages human body activity as proof-of-work.
这项专利申请的国际专利号为WO-2020-060606，名为"使用人体数据活动的加密货币系统"，利用人体活动作为工作证明。
This proof-of-work is achieved when a user performs given tasks,or even online activities such as viewing ads and using search engines.
当用户执行给定的任务，甚至是在线活动(如浏览广告和使用搜索引擎)时，这种工作证明就可以实现。
"Instead of massive computation work required by some conventional cryptocurrency systems,data generated based on the body activity of the user can be a proof-of-work,and therefore,a user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously,"the patent reads.
"与传统的加密货币系统所需的大量计算工作不同，基于用户身体活动生成的数据可以作为工作证明，因此，用户可以无意识地解决计算上的难题，"该专利写道。
Despite the patent being published on March 26 by the World Intellectual Property Organization,some titans of the cryptocurrency industry are already on board,and cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX,founded by Britain's youngest self-made billionaire Ben Delo,has donated$2.5 million dollars to the Gates Foundation.
尽管世界知识产权组织(WorldIntellectualPropertyOrganization)已于3月26日公布了这项专利，但加密货币行业的一些巨头已经加入进来。由英国最年轻的白手起家的亿万富翁本·德洛(Bendeloo)创立的加密货币交易所BitMEX已经向盖茨基金会(GatesFoundation)捐赠了25。
As to how body activity and biometrics will be communicated to servers and cryptocurrency hardware,the patent explains that"a sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user."The patent then gives examples of sensors that can be used to this end–such as"fMRI scanners,electroencephalography(EEG)sensors,near-infrared spectroscopy(NIRS)sensors,heart rate monitors,thermal sensors,optical sensors,Radio Frequency sensors,ultrasonic sensors,cameras,or any other sensor or scanner."
至于如何将身体活动和生物特征信息传递给服务器和加密货币硬件，该专利解释说，"与用户设备通信连接或组成的传感器可以感知用户的身体活动。"该专利随后给出了可用于这一目的的传感器的例子，如"fMRI扫描仪、脑电图传感器、近红外光谱技术传感器、心率监测器、热传感器、光学传感器、射频传感器、超声波传感器、照相机，或任何其他传感器或扫描仪。"
This list of examples is just typical patent stockpiling,or Microsoft's way of ensuring they own every applicable aspect of this system.The real technology,with a sensor specifically made for detecting and keeping track of human
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