Cryptocurrencies aren't proof against the feverish local weather in 2020 — a yr during which the road between mainstream politics and an internet m
Cryptocurrencies aren’t proof against the feverish local weather in 2020 — a yr during which the road between mainstream politics and an internet morass of conspiratorial theories is turning into ever extra blurred.
Former CIA counterintelligence and workers investigator Kevin Shipp, who has near 150,000 followers on Twitter, has now dragged a current Microsoft cryptocurrency patent into the quagmire.
On Sept. 10, Shipp linked Microsoft’s current cryptocurrency patent, which might allow customers to mine crypto utilizing their physique exercise knowledge, to a short-lived Microsoft advert that had featured the Serbian efficiency artist Marina Abramovic.
The advert, which promoted a brand new combined actuality headset from Microsoft known as HoloLens 2, was notably pulled after far-right web customers focused the video in protest towards Abramovic’s alleged Satanism.
Microsoft patent: WO2020060606 – CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA. Invoice Gates makes use of Marina Abramovic in Microsoft advert. Dang, they’re getting apparent about it. pic.twitter.com/0uzL2Xx7Vo
— Kevin Shipp (@Kevin_Shipp) September 10, 2020
Shipp’s Twitter feed offers ample proof of his style for conspiracy — Abramovic and Gates are simply two of many public figures tarred with the comb of “shadow authorities” connections, purported paeodophilia advocacy, “Antifa” insurgency and “black supremacy.”
In current months, conspiratorial far-right politics is not straightforward to dismiss as a fringe phenomenon; witness the rise of Qanon, an online of proliferating theories that casts Donald Trump as a valiant warrior towards a Satanist, deep state cabal sunk in paedophilia and baby sacrifice.
Neither is Shipp the primary to fixate on the seemingly obscure case of “Microsoft patent WO2020060606.” Earlier this yr, the famend Oscar-winning movie director Nikita Mikhalov instructed Russian state-owned media outlet RT that the cryptocurrency patent was testomony to Invoice Gates’ nefarious plans to make use of vaccination as a ruse to implant humanity with microchips.
Zeroing in on the patent’s identify, Mikailov remarked:
“The 060606 half is considerably alarming. You in all probability perceive this, proper? Is that this a coincidence or an intentional choice of such an emblem, which within the Apocalypse of John is named the ‘variety of the beast’ – the 666.”
For a sober take a look at Microsoft’s patent past the conspiratorial fog, Cointelegraph printed an article which outlined the main points of the expertise and proposal in March of this yr.