In an interview at Token2049, tech entrepreneur and founder of the "Don't Die" anti-aging regimen Bryan Johnson envisions the marrying of crypto with anti-aging research to help humans live longer. He explains that crypto and anti-aging research might have more similarities than we may think.
Drawing the comparison between crypto and anti-aging research, Bryan Johnson said,
"Bitcoin fundamentally rejects inflation, and I fundamentally reject aging. We basically accept these slow boil deaths, and we both reject the slow boil death."
Bryan Johnson, 47, previously held a position as a tech CEO but started his own health and anti-aging project, named Blueprint.
Johnson purports that for the first time, aging has been a solvable problem with the development of futuristic advances in material science.
In the interview with Cointelegraph, he explained that in order to reverse aging, we would need to engineer an organic material that can modify our atomic and molecular levels to create the effect of anti-aging.
Johnson was absolutely spot on when he said "there is more of a link between the longevity movement and Bitcoin than one might think", which is evident in the growing interest in anti-aging research among crypto's top CEOS.
Notable figures like Hex's Richard Heart, Coinbase's Brian Armstrong, Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin and Cardano's Charles Hoskinson have all engaged in both non-profit initiatives and investment ventures within the longevity sector.
In 2018, Vitalik donated $2.4 million to anti-aging research at the SENS Research Foundation. After stumbling on the SENS project back in his teens, Vitalik has been a vocal advocate of anti-techniques ever since.
Similarly, Bitcoin investor Roger Ver and former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Scrinivasan have also shown their fascination and contribution to life extension projects.
Srinivasan, who is a venture capitalist, previously stated,
"The ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality and life extension is the most important thing we can invent."
The Longevity Science Foundation, a nonprofit focused researching anti-aging and life-promoting techniques, hopes to be the bridge between crypto and longevity researchers.
At its 2022 Ageing Research and Drug Discovery conference, the organisation revealed how it was exploring how cryptocurrencies and emerging blockchain technologies could help build alternative funding mechanisms for drug research.
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