Menu
The new sharewise is here Clearer, faster, with a light and a dark view — and everything you already know. Try it now
Microsoft strongly encourages users to switch to a different browser than Internet Explorer as it no longer meets modern web and security standards. Therefore we cannot guarantee that our site fully works in Internet Explorer. You can use Chrome or Firefox instead.

Could Elon Musk's 'Halloween Surprise' Somehow Involve Bitcoin?


Billionaire inventor Elon Musk is known for leaving cryptic remarks on Twitter, and his latest tweet is already breaking the internet. It involves a reference to Neuralink, the AI neural interface company he works on when he's not busy sending rockets to outer space or building electric cars. The tweet was short and sweet: "Neuralink progress update show & tell on October 31st (Halloween)." Immediately, people started speculating on what it could mean. 

So here's a purely speculative idea: Musk's so-called "Halloween Surprise" will involve Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). We all know that Musk is a Bitcoin enthusiast, and he has often discussed the possible use cases for Bitcoin. Some have even speculated that Musk himself is Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious and anonymous inventor of Bitcoin. And guess which date Satoshi Nakamoto released his famous Bitcoin white paper on? Oct. 31, 2008. That's Halloween. Coincidence?

When Neuralink did a show and tell last year, it involved a chimp playing a video game with its brain. You can still watch the demo on YouTube, and it's fascinating: A 9-year-old Macaque gets rewarded with a banana smoothie for playing Pong on a video monitor. The title of the video was simply "Monkey MindPong." That naturally led to a whole series of memes involving monkeys trading Bitcoin, people sending Bitcoin to each other with their brains, and monkeys designing Bitcoin, all thanks to the Neuralink chip in their brains.

Continue reading


Source Fool.com

Like: 0
BTC
Share

Comments