There is now a blockchain-based religion. No, this is not a joke.

[trotsky]

http://www.businessinsider.com/matt-liston-blockchain-religion-augur-2018-6

...(Matt) Liston, who recently left his position as CEO of the blockchain project Augur amid a cloud of controversy, has spent the afternoon in Bodega Bay developing what he describes as "mechanisms for worship" for his new religious order, called 0xΩ (Liston pronounces this as "Zero Ex Omega" ). The religion, which he unveiled along with artist Avery Singer at New York's New Museum last month, will present both a blockchain system for pre-established religions, and a new faith-based order of its own.

Singer has joined Liston to create the religious iconography for the project. At the New Museum, Singer presented a CGI art piece that she hopes will be used as 0xΩ's first sacred object. The circulation of this object, Singer suggested, might someday be used as "a form of prayer."

"We have this avatar I've created who is a narwhal with a doge head, a beret, tattoos, an infinity tail, an ethereum logo," Singer said at the New Museum as she muffled down laughter."There's tokens surrounding it. Anyways..."

..."We're incentivizing mindsharing, and eventually mind upload to use consensus to form a structure of collective consciousness," (Liston) says. "And then, we'll elevate an individual interaction with a religious structure as a group participation in a collective consciousness where the structure itself is god."

Sounds just as valid as any other religion to me.

[d_r]

1. but, then, yes it is a joke

despite the headline

"People are wondering, 'What the fuck is this?" Liston said."We're very self-aware of the how ridiculous the crypto industry is, and the fact that we've created the most out-there project possible. There's a little bit of self-referential mocking."

Singer, too, admitted that the project has invited skepticism from its potential acolytes.

"People seem to think it's a humorous project," Singer told me, her voice serious. "They're confused, and rightly so."

Liston said the similarities between religious belief and the evangelical fervor associated with cryptocurrencies inspired him to create a blockchain-based spiritual system.

"The store value of cryptocurrencies is solely dependent on how much other people believe they should have value," Liston said. "It's in this feedback loop of belief that operates like a religious system."

[Cartoonist]

2. Are they providing any proofs?

Or are they making stuff up as they go along like all other religions?

[Major Nikon]

3. Arguably more valid

At least there's an element of reality to a blockchain based faith feedback loop.

[Voltaire2]

4. I read it as Blockhead based religion.

And I was wondering why this was news.