Microsoft files patent application for using brainwaves to mine cryptocurrency (popularmechanics.com)

When this technology scales some prison might embed the tech to its prisoners or worse a nation could declare a brainwave tax.

I should have predicted this. I thought they were just going to brainwash us as usual.

I don't know whether this is better or worse.

Totally unfair for the Windows UI redesign team.

Is Microsoft one of those companies that pays you a bonus if you file a successful patent? This invention doesn’t strike me as being particularly lucrative for them during the 18 years of patent ownership.

Precursor to the Matrix?