This has everything to do with our societies being powered by fossil fuels and nothing to do with bitcoin. High energy usage may be deemed wasteful, but if it was coming from solar power, it wouldn't be bad for the planet.
Life pro tip, if you don't want to be seen as a "crazy" person, slap on a pair of headphones and activate your phones voice recorder. You can pretend to be on a phone call, record your thoughts, and no-one will be any of the wiser.
Well maybe... it's certainly a different approach than being tracked, surveilled and served up personal ads.
Brave is using cryptocurrency as an alternative revenue model for content creators than advertisements, and in some ways it's much more of a "white mirror" kind of tech.
I think the key here to replicating the success is the deployment of deep learning effectively. But I would argue that deepmind's resource pool is immense, it's backed by Google. The resources of GPU's (and more advanced TPU's) are in abundance... not to mention the many brilliant PhD scientists who work there.
Blizzard took away the winnings from one of their own loyal / hard working gamers, whom other gamers are sympathetic to as it could have been "them". This was a public forum with a specific person who seemingly did nothing wrong being punished unfairly, leading to the controversy were seeing.
Apple just removed some apps that people in the west weren't really using that much. More anonymous and somewhat blameless, a-lot of people aren't app developers and can't relate to that experience.
Great question, one could use existing known chemicals as a starting point. There could be a potential to use fMRI readings on a model organism in realtime to generate data.