AMA: We’re an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute & two blockchain teams using cryptocurrency to help categorize millions of deep space photos from the Hubble Space Telescope - Ask Us Anything!

Verification: https://twitter.com/teamaikonHey everyone -- if you saw the news on Coindesk and elsewhere, that’s us! We’re using CPU Tokens and blockchain to help categorize millions of Hubble space photos through an image recognition AI -- think SETI@HOME meets cryptocurrency. More info on this blog postAMA team:Josh Peek (/u/carbon_is_metal)  associate astronomer, Data Science Mission Office Project Scientist at STScI, and MAST Principle Investigator. Homepage: https://ift.tt/2mYSG9U Szu (u/hadroncloud), CEO of Hadron, which pays cryptocurrency miners to help complete huge projects by “renting out” the processing power from their phones and computers. Homepage: https://ift.tt/2At51gc Blinder (/u/MarcAikon), co-founder/CPO of AIKON, which provides a platform to allow blockchain companies to work with the rest of the Internet : Homepage: https://ift.tt/2n4cdFW of APIs, the one we’re using for the Hubble project is now available for developers to play with, test out, and earn crypto by helping us test the platform with some cool challenges, like today’s: Quest for Astrocat!-- check it out here: https://api.marketSo... AMA!

Submitted August 01, 2018 at 11:22PM